Washoe County School District
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...
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...
Washoe County: Steady Improvement, 5 Points Below Clark
Washoe County School District, Nevada's second-largest, does not make headlines for chronic absenteeism the way Clark County does. Its numbers are not as dire, its scale is not as staggering, and its ...
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.
Clark County's 106,000 Chronically Absent Students
At Ruby S. Thomas Elementary School in Las Vegas, 82.8% of the 624 students enrolled in 2024-25 were chronically absent. At Western High School, the figure was 70.6% among 2,745 students. At Chaparral...
11 of 19 Nevada Counties at All-Time Enrollment Lows
Eleven of Nevada's 19 traditional county school districts just hit all-time enrollment lows. Together, those 11 account for 95.4% of all traditional public school enrollment in the state. Clark County...
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...
The Race Gap Between Nevada's Two School Systems Just Closed
Nevada's traditional public school districts have lost 53,160 students since 2019, an 11.7% decline. Over that same span, the charter sector gained 28,201. The charter gains did not replace what tradi...
Nevada's Pre-K Enrollment Grew 19% While K-12 Shrank
For every 100 kindergartners in Nevada, there are now 45 pre-K students. Seven years ago, there were 32. That shift, from roughly one-in-three to nearly one-in-two, reflects a deliberate state investm...
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. Today, it is fewer than one in five.
1 in 7 Nevada Students Now Has an IEP
Five years ago, roughly one in eight Nevada public school students had an Individualized Education Program. Today that figure is closer to one in seven. The state added 9,224 students receiving specia...
Nevada's Kindergarten Class Is 15% Smaller Than It Was Seven Years Ago
Nevada enrolled 30,490 kindergartners in 2025-26. It enrolled 37,730 twelfth graders. That gap of 7,240 students is not a one-year anomaly. It is the structural reality of a school system that has bee...
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...
Nevada's Charter Authority Now Enrolls More Students Than Washoe County
A year ago, the State Public Charter School Authority trailed Washoe County School District by 635 students. As of October 2025, SPCSA enrolls 70,534 students across 51 charter entities, while Washoe ...
One in Four: White Students Now a Quarter of Nevada
Nevada's public schools lost 24,959 students between 2019 and 2026. White students alone account for 35,047 of that loss, a 22.2% decline. The math only works because other groups partially offset the...
Nevada Loses 27,000 Students as Charter Sector Doubles
Nevada's public schools lost 9,251 students this year, the largest single-year drop outside of the pandemic. The 2025-26 decline was not a one-off: it was the sharpest acceleration in a six-year slide...