Summary:
ZIP code 89820, covering Battle Mountain, Nevada, contains a single middle school: Eleanor Lemaire Junior High School, a 310-student campus serving grades 5–8 as part of the Lander district. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP, there are no local schools to compare it against, so the most useful yardsticks are the school's own results over time and how it stacks up against district and Nevada state averages.
Academically, the school improved in every tested subject from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: math rose from 8.8% to 10.9% proficient, reading from 14.9% to 17.8%, and science from 10.5% to 12.2%. Science is the relative bright spot, with the school's 12.2% essentially matching the district's 12.1%. Math and reading tell a different story — both trail the district (by 2.7 and 2.6 points) and sit far below state averages (25.3 and 27.4 points below). The visible grade-level results point the same direction: 5th-grade reading was 24.6% at both school and district versus the state's 52.7%, and 7th-grade math was 17.3% against the state's 32.0%. Many grade-level cells are marked "—" because the state suppressed them for privacy; those figures are unknown, not zero and not a sign of weakness.
Attendance is a mixed signal: the school's 30.4% chronic absenteeism rate for 2025–2026 is better than the district's 34.5% but above the state's 25.5%. About 49.35% of students were eligible for free/reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025, per-student spending was $12,663 in 2023–2024, and the student-teacher ratio was 34.4 in 2024–2025. The school has earned 1 star in each reported year, with its best recent placement 111th of 153 (27th percentile) in 2023–2024. The Lander district is ranked 12th of 12 statewide, at the 0 percentile with 0 stars, so local benchmarks are low even where the school outperforms them.
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