Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 385A - Accountability of Public Schools
NRS 385A.800 - Establishment and maintenance of system; access to data within system.


1. The Department shall establish and maintain an automated system of accountability information for Nevada. The system must:
(a) Have the capacity to provide and report information, including, without limitation, the results of the achievement of pupils:
(1) In the manner required by 20 U.S.C. §§ 6301 et seq., and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto, and NRS 385A.070 and 385A.400; and
(2) In a separate reporting for each group of pupils identified in the statewide system of accountability for public schools;
(b) Include a system of unique identification for each pupil:
(1) To ensure that individual pupils may be tracked over time throughout this State;
(2) That, to the extent practicable, may be used for purposes of identifying a pupil for both the public schools and the Nevada System of Higher Education, if that pupil enrolls in the System after graduation from high school; and
(3) Which must, to the extent money is available for this purpose, include, without limitation, a unique identifier for each pupil whose parent or guardian is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, a reserve component thereof or the National Guard in a manner that will allow for the disaggregation of each category;
(c) Have the capacity to provide longitudinal comparisons of the academic achievement, rate of attendance and rate of graduation of pupils over time throughout this State;
(d) Have the capacity to perform a variety of longitudinal analyses of the results of individual pupils on assessments, including, without limitation, the results of pupils by classroom and by school;
(e) Have the capacity to identify which teachers are assigned to individual pupils;
(f) Have the capacity to provide other information concerning schools and school districts that is not linked to individual pupils, including, without limitation, the ratings of schools and, if available, school districts pursuant to the statewide system of accountability for public schools and an identification of which schools, if any, are persistently dangerous;
(g) Have the capacity to access financial accountability information for each public school, including, without limitation, each charter school, for each school district and for this State as a whole; and
(h) Be designed to improve the ability of the Department, the sponsors of charter schools, the school districts and the public schools in this State, including, without limitation, charter schools, to account for the pupils who are enrolled in the public schools, including, without limitation, charter schools.
The information maintained pursuant to paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) must be used for the purpose of improving the achievement of pupils and improving classroom instruction.
2. The Department shall establish, to the extent authorized by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, and any regulations adopted pursuant thereto, a mechanism by which persons or entities, including, without limitation, state officers who are members of the Executive or Legislative Branch, administrators of public schools and school districts, teachers and other educational personnel, and parents and guardians, will have different types of access to the accountability information contained within the automated system to the extent that such information is necessary for the performance of a duty or to the extent that such information may be made available to the general public without posing a threat to the confidentiality of an individual pupil.
3. On or before December 31 of each year, the Department shall share with the Interagency Council on Veterans Affairs aggregate data collected pursuant to subsection 1 concerning each pupil whose parent or guardian is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, a reserve component thereof or the National Guard.
4. The Department may, to the extent authorized by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, and any regulations adopted pursuant thereto, enter into an agreement with the Nevada System of Higher Education to provide access to data contained within the automated system for research purposes.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 1227; A 2001, 3141; 2003, 19th Special Session, 47; 2005, 1174, 2410, 2546; 2007, 1197, 1959; 2010, 26th Special Session, 38; 2011, 508, 2371, 3083; 2013, 1923, 2697, 3147; 2015, 51, 2402, 3825)—(Substituted in revision for part of NRS 386.650)

Structure Nevada Revised Statutes

Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 385A - Accountability of Public Schools

NRS 385A.010 - Definitions.

NRS 385A.020 - "Bureau" defined.

NRS 385A.030 - "Committee" defined.

NRS 385A.040 - "Title I school" defined.

NRS 385A.050 - "Title I school district" defined.

NRS 385A.060 - Applicability; scope.

NRS 385A.070 - Program of accountability for school districts and certain charter schools; preparation of annual report of accountability by school districts and sponsors of charter schools.

NRS 385A.080 - Duties and authority of Superintendent of Public Instruction concerning program of accountability for school districts and certain charter schools and annual report of accountability by school districts and sponsors of charter schools.

NRS 385A.090 - Notice of availability of annual report of accountability on Internet; public dissemination of report; availability of copies of report.

NRS 385A.200 - Pupil achievement and school performance.

NRS 385A.210 - Class sizes.

NRS 385A.220 - Personnel employed by school district; designation of categories of personnel.

NRS 385A.230 - Information on teachers, other licensed educational personnel and paraprofessionals.

NRS 385A.240 - Attendance, truancy and transiency of pupils.

NRS 385A.250 - Discipline of pupils.

NRS 385A.260 - Graduation and drop-out rates of pupils; enrollment of pupils in remedial college courses.

NRS 385A.270 - Pupils who are eligible for or receive free or reduced-price breakfasts or lunches; regulations.

NRS 385A.280 - Pupils who are English learners.

NRS 385A.290 - Career and technical education.

NRS 385A.300 - Curriculum; remedial and special programs.

NRS 385A.310 - Fiscal information; technological facilities and equipment.

NRS 385A.315 - Access to menstrual products.

NRS 385A.320 - District communication; parental involvement.

NRS 385A.400 - Requirements for report; public dissemination of report.

NRS 385A.410 - Pupil achievement and school performance.

NRS 385A.420 - Class sizes.

NRS 385A.430 - Personnel employed by each school district; designation of categories of personnel.

NRS 385A.440 - Information on teachers, other licensed educational personnel and paraprofessionals.

NRS 385A.450 - Attendance, truancy and transiency of pupils.

NRS 385A.460 - Discipline of pupils.

NRS 385A.470 - Graduation and drop-out rates of pupils; enrollment of pupils in remedial college courses.

NRS 385A.480 - Pupils who are eligible for or receive free or reduced-price breakfasts or lunches.

NRS 385A.490 - Pupils who are English learners.

NRS 385A.500 - Career and technical education.

NRS 385A.510 - Remedial and special programs.

NRS 385A.520 - Fiscal information; technological facilities and equipment.

NRS 385A.600 - Compliance of statewide system with requirements for receipt of federal education funding; applicability and additional requirements for statewide system; rating of school districts allowed.

NRS 385A.605 - Inclusion of data relating to school discipline. [Effective July 1, 2022.]

NRS 385A.610 - Establishment of monitoring system for statewide system; annual summary of findings.

NRS 385A.620 - Regulations governing inclusion of pupils enrolled in certain alternative programs within statewide system.

NRS 385A.650 - Preparation and requirements for plan; annual review; submission of plan.

NRS 385A.670 - Annual determination of whether public schools are meeting school achievement targets and performance targets; transmission of determinations; effect of irregularity in testing administration or testing security.

NRS 385A.680 - Monitoring administration of examinations by Department required under certain circumstances if school fails to meet school achievement targets and performance targets.

NRS 385A.720 - Issuance of preliminary ratings; opportunity for schools to review data; waiver; posting of final ratings.

NRS 385A.730 - Regulations governing alternative performance framework.

NRS 385A.740 - Application for approval to be rated using alternative performance framework; eligibility.

NRS 385A.750 - Form for notice to parents concerning rating of school as underperforming.

NRS 385A.800 - Establishment and maintenance of system; access to data within system.

NRS 385A.810 - Adoption of uniform program for school districts to collect, maintain and transfer data to system.

NRS 385A.820 - Duties of Superintendent of Public Instruction regarding uniform program for collection, maintenance and transfer of data to system.

NRS 385A.830 - Operation of system in compliance with federal laws governing release and confidentiality of records.

NRS 385A.840 - Collection and reporting of data on discipline of pupils.