Yerington Elementary School

Yerington Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized primary schools in Yerington, Nevada, part of Lyon, with 465 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

Lyon comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 9,169 students; Yerington Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Yerington Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 41% White, 8% Native American, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 20% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.2:1. The state averages around 18.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Yerington Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.3%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Lyon County put median household income runs about $80,812, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lyon County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,169 students), Yerington Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Yerington Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Yerington Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Yerington Elementary School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 26.2%.

Yerington Elementary School operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 13%: 537 students in 2018 compared to 465 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 37% to 45% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 in 2025.

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