Lyon County
Three Rural Nevada District School Means Exceeded 34%
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...
Lyon County's Unbroken Climb: The Only District at an All-Time High
Every other Nevada district has improved from its COVID-era chronic absenteeism peak. Lyon County School District has not. Its school-mean chronic rate of 39.5% in 2024-25 is the highest in the availa...
70 Nevada Schools Where a Majority of Students Are Chronically Absent
At Washoe Inspire Academy in Reno, 94.6% of the 130 enrolled students were chronically absent in 2024-25. At Beacon Academy of Nevada, a charter school in Las Vegas, the figure was 87.2% among 743 stu...
Only 1 of 17 Nevada Districts Has Recovered from the COVID Absenteeism Surge
Eureka County School District has 325 students, three schools, and one distinction no other Nevada district can claim: its chronic absenteeism rate is lower now than it was before the pandemic.
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...
Half of Nevada's Districts Never Recovered From COVID
Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that nineteen charter entities that did not exist in 2019 now enroll 11,130 students. The correct figures are 23 charter entities enrolling 13,373...