Nye County School District (NCSD) provides public education for all grades in Nye County, Nevada,[2] as well as 9th through 12th grade education for students living in Esmeralda County, due to its school district having no high school.
[3] The administrative headquarters of the district are in Pahrump.
[5] The school district also serves 5,933 students with over 322 Administrators & Faculty Members.
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.
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.