Smith Valley Schools

Smith Valley Schools is an one-room-style unified-grade school in Smith, Nevada, run under Lyon. The school enrolls 178 students in grades pre-K through 12. By comparison, Nevada's public schools average about 1,078 students each, so Smith Valley Schools sits 83% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 19 schools in Lyon (9,169 students total), Smith Valley Schools accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Smith Valley Schools lists that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 17% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.6:1, putting Smith Valley Schools tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, Lyon County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,812 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Lyon County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,169 students), Smith Valley Schools is one campus in the mix.

Yerington Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 15.6 miles from this campus.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 204 students in 2018 compared to 178 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 73% to 81% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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