Elko Institute for Academic Achievement

We are a free public charter school in Elko serving kindergarten through eighth grade. Our program emphasizes challenging academics and an innovative curriculum, giving families an alternative K–8 setting with a clear focus on learning.

Nevada Classical Academy Elko is a tuition-free public charter school on Railroad Street serving kindergarten through 4th grade for the 2026-27 school year. Our founding board spent several years building community support and working through the state charter process to bring a classical school to Elko County. We are a Hillsdale College Curriculum School, teaching from the Hillsdale K-12 Program Guide. Our content-rich program covers English language arts, math, science, history and art, with strong emphasis on grammar, vocabulary, literature, and speaking and listening. Teachers use Socratic questioning, and subjects spiral back each year at a deeper level, following the grammar, logic and rhetoric stages of the Trivium. Enrollment is open to all students, with a weighted lottery when applications exceed available seats and a waitlist after that. We provide all school supplies for a $30 donation per student, students wear uniforms, and we run an afterschool program. English learner services are available, with family notices in English, Spanish, Chinese, Amharic, Tagalog and Vietnamese.