Pahranagat Valley Elementary School

Pahranagat Valley Elementary School is one of the micro-enrollment elementary schools in Alamo, Nevada, part of Lincoln, with 161 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 66% leaner than the state mean of about 480.

Lincoln comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 958 students; Pahranagat Valley Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Pahranagat Valley Elementary School reports that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.1:1, putting Pahranagat Valley Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 42% of students at Pahranagat Valley Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pahranagat Valley Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.5%, the actual is 45.6%, a residual of +0.1 points.

Across the wider county, Lincoln County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,307 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 1%. Across Lincoln County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 958 students), Pahranagat Valley Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pahranagat Valley High School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Pahranagat Valley Elementary School.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pahranagat Valley Elementary School's enrollment has rose 3% since 2018, when it stood at 157 (now 161). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 92% to 85%.

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