Schools in Zip Code 89048

ZIP code 89048 covers Pahrump, Nevada, in the Nye district, and is home to four schools — one elementary, one middle, and two high schools — serving about 2,060 students. Every school serves a very high-poverty population, with free/reduced-lunch rates between 97.56% and 100%. Enrollment is heavily concentrated: Pahrump Valley High School has 1,333 students (about 65% of the ZIP total), J G Johnson Elementary School has 502, Pathways High School has 123, and Pathways Middle School has 102. Many test scores are suppressed by the state to protect privacy, so those values are unknown rather than low.

Pahrump Valley High School has the strongest reported outcomes: an 87.5% graduation rate, above the district (84.4%) and state (85.4%), a rank of 72 of 105 (31st percentile, 2 stars), and test results generally above the district though usually below the state. Its main challenge is chronic absenteeism at 35.5%, the highest in the ZIP. J G Johnson Elementary School spends the most per pupil ($15,229) and has the smallest classes (20.0 students per teacher), and improved from 0 stars/3rd percentile to 1 star/16th percentile. Math rose from 13.7% to 19.6% and reading from 22.9% to 32.2%, but both remain below district and state.

The Pathways campuses tell a different story. Pathways High School has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the ZIP (16.4%) but the lowest reported graduation rate (61.3%), all current test scores suppressed, and the largest classes (49.2 students per teacher). Pathways Middle School spends the least ($7,013) yet improved reading from 20.1% to 29.0%; its math and science scores are suppressed. No school in this area ranks in the top half of the state.