Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 89429

ZIP code 89429 (Silver Springs, Nevada) contains one public middle school, Silver Stage Middle School, serving grades 5–8 with 327 students in the Lyon district.

Because Silver Stage Middle School is the only middle school in the area, there is no peer school to compare it against locally — the meaningful comparisons are to its own Lyon district and to Nevada as a whole. The school holds a 1-star rating and ranked 123rd of 148 Nevada middle schools in 2025–26, placing it in the 17th percentile; it has held a 1-star rating for three straight years, and its percentile slipped from 23 to 17 even though the number of ranked schools also shrank (153 to 148), so the decline reflects a genuinely weaker relative position. The Lyon district itself ranks 10th of 12 in the state. On academics, the school trails the state by roughly 20 percentage points in both math (14.8% proficient) and reading (25.3%) and also trails its own district in both, while science (17.2%) is the one subject where it beats the Lyon average of 13.8%. Science also improved by about 3 points year over year while the district stayed flat and the state declined. Reading is the most worrying trend: it fell roughly 3 points while the district gained about 1.4 points.

Two context points stand out for families. First, 100% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch and per-student spending is $16,464 (2023–24), with a student–teacher ratio of 19.8 — about 16 to 17 teachers for 327 students. Second, chronic absenteeism is 45.3%, meaning nearly 1 in 2 students miss enough school to be chronically absent, far above the Lyon rate of 36.6% and about 1.8 times the state rate of 25.5%. Note also that the state suppressed some grade-level results — math for grades 6 and 7 and science for grades 5 and 8 — so those figures are unknown rather than zero, and the all-grades numbers rest on a partial picture. The clearest signs of instructional traction are in science, while absenteeism and reading regression are the areas most worth asking about.