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
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...