Summary:
ZIP code 89883 contains just one elementary school: West Wendover Elementary School, a PK–8 campus serving 419 students in the Elko district. Because there is only one school in this area, there are no local peers to compare it against; the most useful benchmarks are its district, which ranks 6th of 12 districts in Nevada at the 50th percentile with 3 stars, and the state as a whole. Families should read the figures below as a single-school profile rather than a side-by-side comparison.
Math is this school's relative strength. All-grades Math proficiency is 34.5%, which is 6.9 percentage points above the Elko district average of 27.6% and only 1.7 points below Nevada's 36.2%. Fifth-grade Math (34.9%) essentially matches the state (34.7%) and clearly beats the district (28.6%). Reading is the clearer gap: all-grades Reading is 34.3%, just 1.1 points above the district (33.2%) but 10.9 points below the state (45.2%), with the widest gap in 5th grade, 36.5% versus 52.7% statewide. Chronic absenteeism is also a concern at 30.5%, above both the district (29.0%) and the state (25.5%).
Two years of data show improvement that has held. The school's state rank moved from 316th of 377 (16th percentile, 1 star) in 2023–2024 to 248th of 379 (35th percentile, 2 stars) in 2024–2025, then 253rd of 376 (33rd percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026 — real progress from a low point, but still in the lower third of Nevada schools. Notably, 100% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025, indicating very high economic need, and the school still outperforms its district in both all-grades Math and Reading. Per-student spending is $15,189 (2023–2024) with a student-teacher ratio of 18.2:1 (2024–2025), though no district or state comparators are provided here. School-level Science results were suppressed by the state to protect student privacy, so they are unknown rather than zero and cannot be judged as a weakness.
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