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Public schools in Nevada

474,586 pupils attended 735 public schools in Nevada in 2024–25, in 20 school districts. Its districts spent $11,222 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $16,398 nationally.

Nevada, 2024–25

474.6 thousand
Pupils
474,586
1.0% of the nation's public school pupils.
735
Public schools
Operational public schools in NCES’s 2024–25 directory.
19.8
Pupils per teacher
Over the 697 schools that report both counts; nationally 15.2.
104
Charter schools
15.4% of pupils.
$11,222
Spending per pupil
Current spending over fall membership, fiscal year 2023.

Nevada over time

Nevada's public school enrollment excluding pre-kindergarten fell by 20,900 from its peak in 2019–⁠20 to 2024–⁠25

Public school membership in Nevada each fall, 2014–⁠15 to 2024–⁠25: all grades, and excluding pre-kindergarten, which is the line the title reads.

Membership is the October 1 count of pupils on a school’s rolls, as the state reported it to NCES.

Every year here reports its pre-kindergarten pupils.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES Common Core of Data — public school membership by state, 2014–15 onwards

The figures behind this chart
Nevada's public school enrollment excluding pre-kindergarten fell by 20,900 from its peak in 2019–20 to 2024–25. Public school membership in Nevada each fall, 2014–15 to 2024–25: all grades, and excluding pre-kindergarten, which is the line the title reads.
School yearAll gradesExcluding pre-kindergartenPre-kindergarten
2014–⁠15459,189453,9595,230
2015–⁠16467,527461,9735,554
2016–⁠17473,744468,3185,426
2017–⁠18485,785476,8778,908
2018–⁠19492,640481,04211,598
2019–⁠20496,934484,89012,044
2020–⁠21482,348472,9499,399
2021–⁠22486,648475,85510,793
2022–⁠23484,192472,33411,858
2023–⁠24479,574466,05813,516
2024–⁠25477,563463,99013,573

Nevada's school districts spent $11,222 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $6,722 in 2005, in each year's dollars

Current spending per pupil in Nevada, fiscal years 2005 to 2023: current spending over fall membership, summed over every district. In each year’s dollars, not adjusted for inflation.

Not adjusted for inflation: a dollar in 2005 bought more than a dollar in 2023, and this chart does not say how much more.

Each year is the release NCES has published for it: provisional for most, final for fiscal years 2019 to 2022. A final release revises the provisional one by well under 1% nationally.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) — every fiscal year in the current format

The figures behind this chart
Nevada's school districts spent $11,222 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $6,722 in 2005, in each year's dollars. Current spending per pupil in Nevada, fiscal years 2005 to 2023: current spending over fall membership, summed over every district. In each year’s dollars, not adjusted for inflation.
Fiscal yearPer pupilPupilsRelease
FY2005$6,722400,083Provisional
FY2006$7,345412,747Provisional
FY2007$7,993422,782Provisional
FY2008$8,285428,776Provisional
FY2009$8,422430,985Provisional
FY2010$8,470428,947Provisional
FY2011$8,492437,149Provisional
FY2012$8,174439,634Provisional
FY2013$8,079445,707Provisional
FY2014$8,358451,831Provisional
FY2015$8,555459,189Provisional
FY2016$8,850467,527Provisional
FY2017$9,186473,744Provisional
FY2018$9,075485,785Provisional
FY2019$9,158492,640Final
FY2020$9,554496,934Final
FY2021$10,090482,348Final
FY2022$11,241486,648Final
FY2023$11,222484,192Provisional

Where Nevada’s districts got their money, fiscal year 2023

Revenue of all 20 districts in NCES’s finance file, by source. Nationally, 12.6% came from federal sources.

State sources gave Nevada's school districts 68.5% of their revenue in fiscal year 2023

Revenue of Nevada's public school districts by source, fiscal year 2023, as a share of their total revenue.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) — newest fiscal year

The figures behind this chart
State sources gave Nevada's school districts 68.5% of their revenue in fiscal year 2023. Revenue of Nevada's public school districts by source, fiscal year 2023, as a share of their total revenue.
SourceRevenueShare of revenue
Federal$1.1 billion16.0%
State$4.6 billion68.5%
Local$1.0 billion15.5%

The largest districts in Nevada

By fall membership in 2024–25. Spending per pupil is the same district’s fiscal year 2023 figure from NCES’s finance file, where it reports one.

The 10 largest public school districts in Nevada, 2024–25
DistrictPupilsSchoolsPupils per teacherSpending per pupil, fiscal year 2023
Clark County306,03837918.6$11,569
Washoe County64,24411319.2$10,869
State Sponsored Charter Schools63,6098130.2$7,980
Elko9,5953418.6$13,020
Lyon9,2051919.8$11,944
Carson City7,4591024.2$12,493
Nye5,7872319.4$14,075
Douglas4,9431517.7$12,089
Churchill3,284519.0$12,446
Humboldt3,2571418.7$14,283

City, suburb, town and rural schools in Nevada

59.9% of Nevada's public school pupils attended city schools in 2024–⁠25

Pupils in Nevada's operational public schools by the kind of place each school is in, 2024–⁠25: NCES's twelve locales grouped into city, suburb, town and rural.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES Common Core of Data — public schools, newest full school year

The figures behind this chart
59.9% of Nevada's public school pupils attended city schools in 2024–25. Pupils in Nevada's operational public schools by the kind of place each school is in, 2024–25: NCES's twelve locales grouped into city, suburb, town and rural.
LocaleSchoolsShare of schoolsPupilsShare of pupils
City38252.0%284,33959.9%
Suburb15220.7%122,90325.9%
Town638.6%28,7956.1%
Rural13818.8%38,5498.1%

Colleges in Nevada that take federal student aid

36 colleges in Nevada are in NCES’s IPEDS universe for 2025–26: 7 public, 3 private nonprofit and 26 private for-profit. They enrolled 163,641 students over twelve months and awarded 10,138 bachelor’s degrees.

Nevada elsewhere on the Factbook

  • Reported crimeCrime and justice

    Offenses reported to police by type, the trend, and the reporting coverage.

  • Most dangerous cities in NevadaCrime and justice

    What each agency serving 25,000 or more reported, ranked. Agency populations overlap, so these do not add up to the state.

  • Prison populationCrime and justice

    People held under the state’s correctional authority, and the imprisonment rate. A different publisher counting a different thing.

  • Arrests by race, sex and ageCrime and justice

    Arrests as the FBI’s participating agencies reported them, with what the figures can and cannot support at the top.

  • Hate crimeCrime and justice

    Incidents reported to the FBI by bias motivation, as counts — the collection publishes no participation share, so there is no rate to compare states on.

  • Federal obligationsFederal spending

    What federal agencies obligated against a place of performance in the state, per resident and by agency.

  • Registered nonprofitsNonprofits

    How many organizations the IRS lists in the state, what they report as revenue, and which kinds of work they do.

  • Payments to doctorsHealth

    What drug and device companies reported paying doctors with a practice address in the state, and the largest recipients.

  • Immigration courtsImmigration and the border

    The EOIR courts sitting in the state, what they completed and still have pending, and how far apart their asylum grant rates are. The courts, not the state’s residents: a detention court hears cases from far outside it.

  • Farm program paymentsFarm subsidies

    What the Farm Service Agency paid through the state’s county offices, by program and by recipient. The offices that administered the payments, not a count of farms: a recipient addressed elsewhere is counted where they were paid.

  • Paycheck Protection Program loansPPP loans

    The PPP loans SBA guaranteed to businesses operating in the state, by county, with how many carry a forgiveness amount and how many were charged off. Loans, not businesses: a business with two draws is two loans.

  • The Nevada Factbook entryAcross the Factbook

    Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

The immigration link above is EOIR’s courts, which sit in this state. CBP’s encounters are not by state and will not be: its sectors and field offices are areas of responsibility rather than a geography, and assigning them to states would be a claim the data does not make. Immigration and the border.

Sources

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25; “School District Finance Survey (F-33),” fiscal year 2023; Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).

Data retrieved