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, behi ...

, as well as 6th through 12th grade education for students living in

Esmeralda County Esmeralda County is a county in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 729, making it the least populous county in Nevada. Esmeralda County does not have any incorporated communities. Its ...

, 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.
Clipping
from

Newspapers.com Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah. The largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, it operates a network of genealogical, historical records, and related genetic genealogy websites. In November 2018, ...

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School * Duckwater School ** By 1975 Duckwater School, with one teacher, had an enrollment count of six as students had withdrawn with the opening of the reservation school.
Clipping
from

Text detail AText detail B
/ref> 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 The White Pine County School District is the public school district of White Pine County, Nevada. The superintendent in 2018 is Adam Young. It includes: *White Pine High School, in Ely, Nevada *Steptoe Valley High School, Ely *White Pine Middle Sc ...

facilities in

Ely Ely or ELY may refer to: Places Ireland * Éile, a medieval kingdom commonly anglicised Ely * Ely Place, Dublin, a street United Kingdom * Ely, Cambridgeshire, a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England ** Ely Cathedral Ely Cathedral, formal ...

and

Lund Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...

and Eureka County School District's Eureka County High School.
Clipping of firstText detail
an
of second pageText detail Atext detail B
at

. *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 Tonopah may refer to: * Tonopah, Arizona, a community * Tonopah, Nevada, a community and eponym of the Boston-Tonopah Mining Company and Tonopah Club ** Tonopah Airport Committee, a community group for acquiring a 1940s airstrip ** Tonopah Times- ...

**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