Correction (July 21, 2026): Mineral County's 2024-25 school mean was 1.7 times its 2018-19 rate, not more than double. Only Elko and Lyon more than doubled. This version also identifies the figures as unweighted district school means, bounds Lyon's high to the six-year package panel, fixes the district frontmatter and removes unsupported geographic, demographic, transportation, mental-health, funding, causal and policy claims.

Three rural Nevada districts had unweighted school-mean chronic-absence rates above 34% in 2024-25: Elko^↗ET at 34.6%, Lyon^↗ET at 39.5% and Mineral^↗ET at 40.2%. The statewide school mean was 31.7%.

Three trajectories

Elko's 28 school rows totaled 9,809 enrolled students in 2024-25. Its school mean increased from 15.2% in 2018-19 to 40.5% in 2021-22, then measured 34.5%, 34.4% and 34.6% in the next three years. The endpoint change was 19.4 points, and the current rate was 2.3 times the baseline.

Lyon's 18 school rows totaled 9,047 students. Its mean rose from 18.9% in 2018-19 to 38.3% in 2021-22, measured 37.4% in each of the next two years and reached 39.5% in 2024-25. That was the highest Lyon value in the six reported package years, a 20.6-point endpoint increase and 2.1 times the baseline.

Mineral's four school rows totaled 594 students. Its mean rose from 24.1% to 48.4% in 2021-22, then measured 40.3%, 39.7% and 40.2%. Its current rate was 16.1 points above baseline, or 1.7 times the 2018-19 value.

The school-level picture

Owyhee High School reported 59.5% among 89 enrolled students. The unweighted mean across the three Owyhee school rows was 49.5%; the three Jackpot school rows averaged 54.0%. The package does not establish why those rates differ from other schools.

Hawthorne Junior High reported 56.4% and Schurz Elementary 36.8%. Elko High School reported 38.5% among 1,433 students, while Adobe Middle School reported 34.0% among 681. Fernley High School reported 46.4% among 1,321 students.

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