Panaca Elementary School

Panaca Elementary School is one of the modestly sized K-5 schools in Panaca, Nevada, part of Lincoln, with 193 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 60% below the typical public school in Nevada, which averages around 480 students.

Lincoln runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 958 students. Panaca Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Panaca Elementary School logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Panaca Elementary School has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.2:1. The state averages around 18.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Panaca Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.4%, the actual is 53.2%, a residual of +8.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Lincoln County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,307 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 1% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lincoln County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 958 students), Panaca Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Meadow Valley Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Panaca Elementary School comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.1%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Panaca Elementary School's enrollment has rose 21% since 2018, when it stood at 160 (now 193). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 23.2:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.