Summary:
ZIP code 89820 covers Battle Mountain, Nevada, where three public schools serve students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade: Battle Mountain Elementary School (PK–4, 432 students), Eleanor Lemaire Junior High School (5–8, 310 students), and Battle Mountain High School (9–12, 309 students) — roughly 1,051 students in total, all within the Lander district. That district ranks 12th of 12 in Nevada at the 0 percentile with 0 stars, which is important background for reading each school's numbers.
Each school stands out differently. The elementary school has the most students and the highest per-student spending at $15,309, and its 2025–2026 all-grade SBAC results (math 18.5%, reading 24.1%) beat district averages — but its rank fell to 363 of 376, the 3rd percentile, with 0 stars, and both scores dropped from the prior year. The junior high faces the most stacked challenges: the highest student-teacher ratio (34.4), the highest free/reduced lunch rate (49.35%), the lowest spending ($12,663), and the lowest SBAC math (10.9%) and reading (17.8%) — yet it improved in all three SBAC subjects year over year. The high school comes closest to state results on ACT English (49.1% versus 50.8%) and ACT math (20.3% versus 22.6%), and posted a 90.8% graduation rate in 2023–2024, but has the highest chronic absenteeism at 37.8% and slid from 46th percentile and 2 stars to 28th percentile and 1 star.
Two patterns matter most for families. First, chronic absenteeism is a system-wide issue here: all three schools exceed the state rate of 25.5%, with the high school at 37.8%, the elementary school at 34.2%, and the junior high at 30.4%. Second, test comparisons need care — the elementary and junior high take SBAC exams while the high school takes ACT and end-of-course tests, and the state suppressed several grade-level scores to protect student privacy, so those blanks are unknown rather than zeros.
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