Lyon County
The Rural Absenteeism Crisis: Three Nevada Counties Above 34%
At Owyhee High School in Elko County, 59.5% of the 89 students were chronically absent in 2024-25. The school serves the Duck Valley Indian Reservation on the Nevada-Idaho border, more than 100 miles ...
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
Five years is long enough to call it. Nevada's traditional public school districts lost 22,873 students during the pandemic's first two years. They have since lost an additional 30,287. The post-COVID...