NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools NV

Best-Resourced Schools in Fernley, NV

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7 public K-12 schools in Fernley from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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7
Schools
4,226
Students
19.6/100
Avg Resource Index
21.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Fernley has more public-school enrollment than 47% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Fernley's 7 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Fernley's 7 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Fernley lists only 7 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 32 to 1,327 students, a 41-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 53%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
1st percentile
Teacher staffing
11th percentile

Fernley High School accounts for 31.4% of all Fernley public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Fernley-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Fernley school enrollment varies 41× across entities

Fernley school enrollment ranges from 32 students (lowest) to 1,327 students (highest), a spread of 1,295 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Fernley operates one school district — a single-district system

Fernley's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Fernley student-teacher ratio is 21.2:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Lyon County Adult Education 30
2. Silverland Middle School 29
3. Fernley Intermediate School 22
4. Fernley Elementary School 16
5. Cottonwood Elementary School 14
6. East Valley Elementary School 14
7. Fernley High School 12

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Fernley

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Silverland Middle School 63.0/100
  2. 2 Fernley High School 61.7/100
  3. 3 Fernley Elementary School 59.9/100
  4. 4 East Valley Elementary School 59.6/100
  5. 5 Fernley Intermediate School 59.0/100

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Which Fernley school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Lyon County Adult Education has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Fernley schools in this federal-data comparison at 30/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Fernley, NV? ▼

Fernley has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,226 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 21.2:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.