Summary:
ZIP code 89815 covers Spring Creek, Nevada, where six schools serve roughly 2,989 students: four elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school, plus no alternative school. All six belong to the Elko district, which ranks 6th of 12 districts in Nevada at the 50th percentile with 3 stars. The largest schools are Spring Creek High School at 880 students and Spring Creek Middle School at 708, while Mound Valley Elementary School enrolls just 9 students in a K–8 setting.
The elementary schools are the academic bright spot. Liberty Peak Elementary School (579 students) posts 37.2% math proficiency, above the district’s 27.6% and the state’s 36.2%, and has the lowest free/reduced-price lunch rate at 15.54%. Spring Creek Elementary School has the best attendance in the ZIP at 19.4% chronic absenteeism and standout 5th-grade reading at 69.8%, versus 41.7% district and 52.7% state. Sage Elementary School improved from 1 star to 2 stars (24th to 39th percentile) with 36.5% math, though it has the highest free/reduced-price lunch rate among the regular elementaries at 40.92%. Spring Creek Middle School is the weakest link: 119th of 148 and 1 star, with math at 19.0% and reading at 22.5%, both far below district and state, and a three-year decline from the 35th percentile to the 20th.
Spring Creek High School is mixed: an 89.0% graduation rate and 27.2% ACT math proficiency beat district and state, but chronic absenteeism is 38.2% and EOC science at 18.0% trails both. Attendance is a broad concern — the high school, the middle school (33.7%), and Mound Valley Elementary School (41.6%) all exceed the district’s 29.0% and the state’s 25.5%. Mound Valley is a structural outlier, with $27,419 per-student spending and a 9:1 student-teacher ratio. Some test scores are suppressed by the state for privacy and should be read as unknown, not as evidence of poor performance.
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