Nye County School District
Location
Tonopah, Nevada (HQ)
US-NV
United States
Coordinates38°4′9″N 117°13′50″W / 38.06917°N 117.23056°W / 38.06917; -117.23056 (District office)
District information
TypePublic
GradesPK-12
SuperintendentDale A. Norton
Schools17
Budget$74,251,000
NCES District ID3200360[1]
Students and staff
Students5,933
Teachers322.50
Staff1235
Student–teacher ratio18.40
Other information
Websitewww.nye.k12.nv.us

Nye County School District provides public education for all grades in Nye County, Nevada, as well as 6th through 12th grade education for students living in Esmeralda County, due to its school district having no high school.[2] The headquarters of the district are in Tonopah. The district serves 17 schools.[3] The school district also serves 5,933 students with over 322 Administrators & Faculty Members. The N.C.S.D. Motto is Every Child A Success.

At 18,198.597 square miles (47,134.15 km2), Nye County School District is the largest school district in the contiguous 48 states by area, and the 15th largest in the United States, preceded entirely by the school districts of Alaska.

History

In 1955 the Nye County district agreed to receive tuition from Esmeralda County district to pay for that district's high school students' tuition at Tonopah High.[4]

NCSD schools

  • Amargosa Valley School
  • Beatty Elementary/Middle School
  • Duckwater School
    • By 1975 Duckwater School, with one teacher, had an enrollment count of six as students had withdrawn with the opening of the reservation school.[5] Prior to loss of Native American students, the school district provided heated lunches, and there were two teachers instead of one. By 1986 enrollment was up to 13 and the relationship between the Duckwater School and Duckwater Shoshone School community had mended. The teacher by then had an aide for assistance, and used the aide and older students to have all students of all ages be on task. Of the 13 students, nine had at least one sibling also in their classes. Students came from ranching and mining families. Duckwater area students for high school generally move on to non-Nye County high schools: White Pine County School District facilities in Ely and Lund and Eureka County School District's Eureka County High School.[6]
  • Floyd Elementary
  • Gabbs School
  • Hafen Elementary
  • J.G. Johnson Elementary School
  • Manse Elementary
  • Round Mountain Elementary
  • Tonopah Elementary/Middle School
  • Rosemary Clarke Middle School
  • Round Mountain Junior/Senior High
  • Beatty High School
  • Pahrump Valley High School
  • Tonopah High School
    • As of 2022 Esmeralda County residents attend Tonopah High.[7]
  • Adult Education
  • Pathways Innovative Education

References

  1. ↑ "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Nye County School District". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Education". Esmeralda County, Nevada. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Nye County Schools". Retrieved December 17, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Nye County School Board Approves Esmeralda's Payments for Tuition". Nevada State Journal. Reno, Nevada. July 1, 1955. p. 9. - Clipping from Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Powers, Lenita (July 13, 1975). "Duckwater Indians Make Children's Education a Home Affair". Nevada State Journal. p. 21. - Clipping from Newspapers.com. Text detail A, Text detail B
  6. ↑ Papinchak, Steve (September 28, 1986). "It's back to basics at Duckwater's 1-room school". Reno Gazette-Journal. pp. 1D–2D. - Clipping of first (Text detail) and of second page (Text detail A, text detail B) at Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Education". Esmeralda County, Nevada. Retrieved July 17, 2022.


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