All children may attend the
Nye County School District's Duckwater School, but Native American children may elect to attend the Duckwater Shoshone Elementary School (D.S.E.S.), located on the reservation. D.S.E.S. is tribally-controlled and operated, with funding derived from the
Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). The BIE provides most of the tribal school's funding. Both schools are
K-8 one-room schools. By 1975, Duckwater School, with one teacher, had an enrollment of six, since some students had withdrawn upon the opening of the reservation school. Prior to loss of Native American students, the school district provided hot lunches, and there were two teachers. By 1986, enrollment was thirteen, and the relationship between the Duckwater School and Duckwater Shoshone School community had mended. The teacher then had an aide, and used the aide and older students to ensure all students be on task. Of the thirteen students, nine had at least one sibling in their classes. Students came from ranching and mining families. Duckwater Shoshone is in a building that previously functioned as a church. The school was established circa 1973 by tribal members who were dissatisfied with their children's course in the
Nye County School District. The school board was established on July 26 of that year, and it opened on November 26 of that year after the
United States Office of Education granted $35,000. In 1975, its student count was 21. Other high schools taking Duckwater area students, as of 1986, are Lund High School in
Lund and White Pine High School in
Ely, both of the
White Pine County School District. As of 1986, residents of Ely and Eureka often take in high school students from Duckwater, who live with them while they attend high school. ==References==