Summary:
ZIP code 89820 covers Battle Mountain, Nevada, and is served by exactly one elementary school: Battle Mountain Elementary School, a PK–4 campus at 650 Altenburg Avenue with 432 students. It belongs to the Lander district, which ranks 12th of 12 ranked Nevada districts.
Within that district, the school is the stronger performer: in 2025–2026 it beat district averages in all-grades math (18.5% vs 13.6%) and reading (24.1% vs 20.4%), and edged ahead in 3rd-grade math (20.3% vs 19.6%). But it is also sliding. Its statewide rank has fallen three years running — 322nd of 377, then 336th of 379, now 363rd of 376 (3rd percentile, 0 stars). Math proficiency dropped 7.4 points in a year and reading 3.4 points, even as the state rose slightly in math and the district improved slightly in reading. Against state averages, the school trails by 17.7 points in math and 21.1 points in reading, performing at roughly half the state rate in both. Reading is consistently the stronger subject internally, with grade 4 showing the widest gap (25.6% reading vs 17.2% math).
Other context matters for parents. Chronic absenteeism is 34.2% — about one in three students — above the state's 25.5% but just below the district's 34.5%. The student-teacher ratio is high at 27:1, while per-student spending is $15,309, and 46.3% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. Because SBAC testing begins in grade 3, the reported scores reflect only the two oldest grade levels, a minority of the 432 students. Grade 4 school and district figures match exactly, suggesting this school supplies most of the district's tested grade 3–4 population. The data shows association, not cause.
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