Nye County School District provides public education for all grades in

Nye County, Nevada Nye County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 51,591. Its county seat is Tonopah. At , Nye is Nevada's largest county by area and the third-largest county in the contiguous United States, beh ...

, as well as 6th through 12th grade education for students living in Esmeralda County, due to its school district having no high school. The headquarters of the district are in Tonopah. The district serves 17 schools. 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 , 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.
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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School * Duckwater School ** By 1975 Duckwater School, with one teacher, had an enrollment count of six as students had withdrawn with the opening of the reservation school.
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's Eureka County High School.
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. *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 Beatty may refer to: Places U.S. places * Beatty, Nevada * Beatty, Ohio * Beatty, Oregon * Beatty, Kentucky, now known as Beattyville Other places * Beatty, Saskatchewan, Canada * Beatty, South Australia, Australia * Mount Mary, South Australia, A ...

*Pahrump Valley High School *

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**As of 2022 Esmeralda County residents attend Tonopah High. *Adult Education *Pathways Innovative Education

References

School districts in Nevada Education in Nye County, Nevada {{Nevada-school-stub