Were women in Ely in the 1920s less likely to graduate high school?

As noted in our recent post, Mildred Klaich (my great-grandmother) never went to high school.  In Mildred's case, she married (very) young and so never had a chance.  However, her older sister also does not appear to have gone to high school (and she, by contrast, did not marry until later).  This led me to wonder whether young women in the Ely, Nevada area were simply less likely to go to high school in general in the 1920s.    [One reason to think that it wasn't a gender issue is that Mildred's younger brother, Eli (a.k.a. Iliya) also did not attend high school (at least the three of them are never in any yearbooks).]

As a way to get a slightly more systematic glimpse into this question, I went through the yearbooks from 1926-1928 and counted the number of graduating seniors who were male and female.  I looked at these years, because this is roughly the time that Mildred should have graduated high school if she had stayed in school.  Here's the breakdown by gender:

White Pine County High School Graduates

1926

  Men: 11

  Women: 11

1927

  Men: 21

  Women: 24

1928

  Men: 23

  Women: 29

It doesn't look like women in that small time frame were less likely to graduate from high school.