Mountain View Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Elko, Nevada, Mountain View Elementary School works with 507 students from grades K through 4, part of Elko.

Elko runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 9,546 students. Mountain View Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Mountain View Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 35% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.1:1, putting Mountain View Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 22% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Elko County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, Mountain View Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 41.4%, a residual of -8.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Elko County reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,487 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Elko County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,984 students), of which Mountain View Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Northside Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mountain View Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 38.5%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 12%: 577 students in 2018 compared to 507 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 62% to 56% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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