What Nevada School Districts Spend Per Student
The median Nevada school district spends $14,329 per student per year, $214 below the national median of $14,543, across all 19 districts the state reports. The 17 of them a ZIP code can reach are listed below, and their 430,975 students account for $5.0 billion of current spending in fiscal year 2022.
Nevada at a Glance
| Median district, per student | $14,329 |
|---|---|
| National median district | $14,543 |
| Districts listed | 17 of 19 |
| Students listed | 430,975 |
| Median district, math | ≈33% |
| Median district, reading | ≈43% |
Every Nevada District, by Enrollment
Spending is current spending divided by fall membership for fiscal year 2022. Proficiency and graduation rates are school year 2018-19, the last year before the pandemic interrupted state testing, so the money and the results are not from the same year. A figure marked ≈ is one the federal file published as a range rather than a value, so small groups of children stay unidentifiable; it is the middle of that range and within ten points of the real one. A dash means the federal files publish no value under that district's ID. 2 further Nevada districts are missing because the federal boundary file places them in no ZIP code, which is normal for charter and virtual districts with no attendance area.
| District | Students | Per student | Math | Reading | Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clark County School District | 315,787 | $11,565 | 34% | 47% | 86% |
| Washoe County School District | 65,538 | $10,957 | 39% | 48% | 86% |
| Elko County School District | 9,943 | $13,008 | 32% | 44% | 84% |
| Lyon County School District | 8,918 | $11,928 | 32% | 42% | 86% |
| Carson City School District | 7,742 | $12,516 | 34% | 43% | 87% |
| Nye County School District | 5,577 | $14,127 | 26% | 38% | 80% |
| Douglas County School District | 5,383 | $12,077 | 44% | 55% | 91% |
| Churchill County School District | 3,360 | $12,255 | 28% | 43% | 73% |
| Humboldt County School District | 3,358 | $14,329 | 32% | 41% | 86% |
| White Pine County School District | 1,261 | $16,637 | 23% | 33% | ≈67% |
| Lander County School District | 1,030 | $14,752 | 33% | 43% | ≈77% |
| Lincoln County School District | 938 | $16,780 | 40% | 46% | ≈87% |
| Pershing County School District | 669 | $17,969 | 22% | 38% | ≈95% |
| Mineral County School District | 607 | $18,491 | 21% | 38% | ≈85% |
| Storey County School District | 433 | $20,561 | 42% | 53% | ≈85% |
| Eureka County School District | 348 | $28,032 | ≈42% | ≈57% | — |
| Esmeralda County School District | 83 | $35,120 | ≈15% | ≈35% | — |
Sources
Spending and enrollment come from the NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) for fiscal year 2022. Proficiency and graduation rates come from EDFacts for school year 2018-19. Districts are matched to ZIP codes through the NCES EDGE geographic relationship file. Nothing on this page is estimated or modelled: a figure is read from a federal source file or it is left blank.
Questions About Nevada School Spending
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