Dayton Intermediate School

Set in Dayton, Nevada, Dayton Intermediate School is a tight-knit junior high, overseen by Lyon. It works with 356 students across grades 7 through 8. That puts it 54% leaner than the typical public school in Nevada, which averages around 767 students.

Lyon comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 9,169 students; Dayton Intermediate School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Dayton Intermediate School reports that White students make up the majority at 62%. The remainder breaks down as 29% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Lyon County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Dayton Intermediate School lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.4:1, putting Dayton Intermediate School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Dayton Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 23.7%, a residual of -8.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Lyon County put the typical household earns roughly $80,812 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Lyon County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,169 students), Dayton Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Dayton High School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Dayton Intermediate School. On composite proficiency, Dayton Intermediate School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 35.2%.

Dayton Intermediate School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dayton Intermediate School has ticked down 9%, going from 390 students in 2018 to 356 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 67% to 62%. Class-load math has grew: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 21.6:1 in 2025.

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