Summary:
ZIP code 89048 is served by a single elementary school, J G Johnson Elementary School, a PK–5 campus with 502 students located in Pahrump and part of the Nye district. Because it is the only elementary school in this ZIP code, there are no local school-to-school comparisons to make — the most useful benchmarks are the Nye district, the state of Nevada, and the school's own prior years.
On state testing, the school scores below the Nye district and Nevada in every reported subject and grade in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. In 2025–2026, all-grade mathematics proficiency was 19.6% (district 22.9%, state 36.2%) and all-grade reading was 32.2% (district 35.6%, state 45.2%). Reading is the relative bright spot, with 5th grade reading at 36.1%. The encouraging news is clear improvement: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, all-grade math rose from 13.7% to 19.6% and reading from 22.9% to 32.2%. The school's ranking also improved, from 366 out of 379 (3rd percentile, 0 stars) to 314 out of 376 (16th percentile, 1 star). Some 2025–2026 results — 4th and 5th grade mathematics and science — are suppressed, so those figures are unknown rather than a sign of weakness.
Two contextual factors stand out. Chronic absenteeism was 31.6% in 2025–2026, above the district's 29.4% and the state's 25.5% — nearly one in three students. The school also reported 100% free/reduced lunch participation in 2024–2025, indicating very high economic need. Per-student spending was $15,229 in 2023–2024, with a 20:1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025; the supplied data includes no district or state figures for those two measures, so they are descriptive only. Overall, this is a high-need school that remains below district and state proficiency levels but is trending upward on math, reading, rank, and stars.
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