Summary:
ZIP code 89820 is home to exactly one public high school: Battle Mountain High School, a grades 9–12 school with 309 students in the Lander district. Because it is the only high school in the ZIP code, families have no local public alternative to compare it with, so the most useful comparisons are against the Lander district and Nevada state averages — and those comparisons matter, since the Lander district is ranked 12th of 12 in Nevada, at the 0th percentile, with 0 stars.
The school's statewide standing has been slipping. Its rank went from 52 of 97 (46th percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–24, to 65 of 103 (37th percentile, 2 stars) in 2024–25, to 76 of 105 (28th percentile, 1 star) in 2025–26 — a move from roughly the middle of Nevada high schools to the bottom third. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–26 is 37.8%, above the district's 34.5% and well above the state's 25.5%. That is one of the clearest warning signs in the data, since absenteeism often goes hand in hand with lower achievement.
Reported test proficiency trails the state in every subject and year where the school's value is available. Science is the widest gap: the 2025–26 EOC Science End-of-Course rate is 13.4 versus the state's 26.5, down from 17.3 the prior year while the state improved. ACT Math sits at 20.3 against the state's 22.6, essentially flat while the state rose. ACT English is the relative bright spot at 49.1 versus 50.8, a gap of only 1.7 points, up from 46.1 the year before. The 2023–24 graduation rate was 90.8%, equal to the district's, though no 2024–25 school rate or 2023–24 state rate is provided, so no current advantage over the state can be claimed. Some 9th- and 10th-grade science results were suppressed by the state to protect student privacy, so those outcomes are unknown and should not be read as weaknesses. Other indicators: 42.72% free/reduced lunch, $14,662 spending per student, and a 19.3 student-teacher ratio.
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