About Silver State High School

Our job is to make this a place your child wants to be.

Silver State High School is a Free Public on-line distance education high school. Students attend classes once per week to meet with their teachers and do their remaining class work on- line. This format allows students to make appointments or come in on other days to get individualized help from their teachers. Students are also encouraged to phone or contact their teachers using instant messaging during the day and into the early evening whenever they need help. Our school has a large computer classroom lab and other classrooms using state-of-the-art computer presentation to allow the students to work online or attend presentations by their teachers. Additionally, the school has individual cubicles where students may use computers and work uninterrupted, yet able to seek their teacher’s help when needed.

Students register for the required six credits each school year (4 if a senior), however they are assigned and complete only three credits every 18 weeks which is a normal semester. This enables the student to concentrate on the three subjects and get the help they need. This system also allows the school not to schedule several difficult courses at the same time.

Our modern facility is located at the North end of Carson City on Highway 395 and College Parkway and is served by bus system. (DART and PRIDE)  The location was selected to enable students from Douglas, Story, Lyon, Washoe and other surrounding counties to attend. Students from outlying counties are encouraged to enroll as our unique distance education format is designed to serve them easily.

Our course-work is approved by the Nevada Superintendent of Schools and is updated frequently as new exciting courses become available. All our teachers are experienced Nevada certified, Highly Qualified under the No-Child-Left-Behind-Act teachers selected and trained to help students using this new format.
We want our students to be successful in all their goals and our teachers want to be part of that success. Parents are expected to monitor their child’s progress as all grades and assignments are posted on-line and are password protected.

We hope this gives you an overview about our school. We ask you to call or come by and meet our staff and look at our facility to determine if this is the right choice to help with your child’s high school education. We believe it is.

Charter schools are independent public schools designed and operated by parents, educators, community leaders, education entrepreneurs and others with a contract, or charter, from a public agency, such as a local or state education agency or an institution of higher education. Charter schools are operated free-of-charge to parents and are open to all students. These schools provide parents enhanced educational choices within the public school system. Exempt from many statutory and regulatory requirements, charter schools receive increased flexibility in exchange for increased accountability for improving academic achievement. The first U.S. public charter school opened in 1992. Today, nearly 4,000 charter schools serve more than one million students in 40 states and Washington, D.C.