Meadow Valley Middle School

Meadow Valley Middle School is a middle school of micro-enrollment scale in Panaca, Nevada, overseen by Lincoln, instructing 77 students in grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Nevada's public schools average about 767 students each, so Meadow Valley Middle School sits 90% below that benchmark.

Within Lincoln, which oversees 9 schools and 958 students, Meadow Valley Middle School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Meadow Valley Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Beyond that, the school logs 14% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Lincoln County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.4:1 average. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lincoln County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Meadow Valley Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.1%, the actual is 47.6%, a residual of +0.6 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Lincoln County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $72,307 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 1%. Across Lincoln County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 958 students), Meadow Valley Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Panaca Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 2 of the 5 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Meadow Valley Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 55.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Meadow Valley Middle School has showed little movement, going from 77 students in 2018 to 77 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 5% to 14%.

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