Best High Schools in Zip Code 89301

ZIP code 89301 covers Ely, Nevada, and this area has 2 high schools, both in the White Pine County School District and both serving grades 9–12: White Pine High School with 365 students and Steptoe Valley High School with 24 students. Together they enroll 389 students, and White Pine accounts for about 93.8% of that total — roughly 15 times the size of Steptoe Valley.

White Pine High School is the larger, higher-performing option. Its most recent ranking is 48th of 105 schools, in the 54th percentile with 3 stars for 2025–2026, up from 65th of 97, 33rd percentile, 2 stars in 2023–2024, so the improvement looks sustained rather than a one-year spike. Its 11th-grade ACT English proficiency is 60.5% for 2025–2026 (above district and state), with ACT Math at 26.3%, also above both benchmarks. Its graduation rate is 93.5% for 2023–2024, and the district rate for 2024–2025 is 93.0% versus the state's 85.4%. One caution: chronic absenteeism is 29.9%, above the district (27.4%) and state (25.5%).

Steptoe Valley High School is very small, with a 12:1 student-teacher ratio and slightly higher per-student spending ($16,923 vs. $16,749), yet its available outcomes are more challenging. Chronic absenteeism is 62.0%, more than double White Pine's rate and 36.5 points above the state, and its graduation rate of 77.2% is below district and state. Its most recent ranking shown is from 2018–2019 (112th of 136, 18th percentile, 1 star), and its current ACT and science scores are suppressed by the state, so its present achievement level is simply unknown — not zero. Both schools report 100% free/reduced lunch. The most useful comparison is against district and state benchmarks: White Pine generally exceeds them in ACT and ranking, while Steptoe Valley trails in attendance and graduation, with too little current test data to judge achievement.