Nye County
Nevada's Native American Students Cut Chronic Absenteeism by 7 Points Since 2022, but the Gap With White Peers Has Doubled
Chronic absenteeism among Native American students in Nevada has improved by about 7 points since its 2021-22 peak, falling from 51.5% to 44.8% in 2023-24 in schools where the subgroup is reported. Th...
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...
In Clark County, White Students Are Now One in Five
Seven years ago, roughly one in four students in Clark County School District was white. By 2025-26, it was fewer than one in five.
Seven in 10 Nevada Districts Are Now Majority-Minority
Nye County's schools were 59.5% white seven years ago. In 2025-26, that figure fell to 48.5%, making it the latest Nevada county to cross below the majority-minority threshold. A district that sits an...
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...