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Nevada State University's 509-acre (206 ha) site is located at the base of the McCullough mountain range in the southeastern corner of Henderson. [31] The site was conveyed from the Bureau of Land Management to the city of Henderson in November 2002 as part of the Clark County Conservation of Public Lands and Natural Resources Act of 2002.
Sage Ridge's cross country team, track & field team, and swim teams have ranked top in the Nevada state competition for both boys and girls. The school offers a variety of sports, including volleyball, cross country, swimming, golf, basketball and track and field. The boys' cross country team won the 2A state championships in 2004, 2006 and 2007.
The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) is the governing body of athletic programs for high schools in the state of Nevada.In addition, five schools in the state of California (Coleville, Needles, North Tahoe, South Tahoe, and Truckee) and one from Arizona (Beaver Dam) are also members as the schools are geographically isolated from other in-state schools.
Nevada students' participation and achievement on standardized tests dropped significantly last year, according to results released on Thursday by the state Department of Education (NDE).
The textbook commission ceased to exist in 1981, while the state board for vocational education was renamed in 1985 into the state board for occupational education. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1995, the commission on post-secondary education was moved to the Department of Education from the Department of Business and Industry , though this only lasted until ...
This is a list of colleges and universities in the U.S. state of Nevada. The higher education system of Nevada is composed primarily of public two and four-year institutions, private four-year institutions and two and four-year for-profit schools. The largest college in the state is the College of Southern Nevada with over 37,000 students.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas was the second four-year university in the state to be founded, initially as Nevada Southern University in 1957. Winning its autonomy in 1965, Nevada Southern was renamed in 1969 due to the need for better national recognition and partially for separation from the University of Nevada. [1]
This game was ranked by MaxPreps as the 9th best high school football game of all time. They went on to win their first state championship title against Centennial, with a final score of 50–7. The girls varsity bowling team won the school's first Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association State Championship in 2012.