Lander County
How a District of 1,000 Students Posted Nevada's Biggest Graduation Gain
In 2021, Lander County graduated two out of three seniors. The district sat nearly 15 points below the state average, posting a 66.7% graduation rate while Nevada as a whole held steady at 81.3%. Thre...
Eureka County: Nevada's Only District Below Its Pre-COVID Chronic-Absence Rate
Eureka County School District has 325 students across three schools, with a chronic absenteeism rate of 21.6% in the latest 2024-25 data. That last number is the remarkable one: it is lower than the d...
Nevada's Attendance Recovery Just Hit a Wall
Two years of progress vanished in a single school year. Nevada's average school-level chronic absenteeism rate climbed from 29.9% to 31.7% in 2024-25, a 1.8 percentage point reversal that erased nearl...
One in Three Nevada Students Missing Too Much School
Roughly 155,000 Nevada students were chronically absent in 2024-25. That is one in three students statewide who missed 10% or more of enrolled school days -- the equivalent of nearly four weeks of ins...