About
Where every figure on this site comes from
LVN.com is a reference for people deciding whether to become a licensed vocational nurse in California or Texas, and for people already doing it. It is assembled from four public documents. Nothing is estimated, modelled or bought.
Sources
The four documents
Each is linked from every page that quotes it, so any figure here can be checked against the original in one click.
- BVNPT vocational nursing program pass rates
Updated 13 February 2026
- BVNPT tuition costs for approved schools
Board approved-school table
- Texas BON, 2025 NCLEX-PN examination pass rates
Board meeting, April 2026
- Texas BON, VN pass rates for last 5 years, first-time test takers
Board file dated 16 April 2026, retrieved 25 September 2026
- BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
SOC 29-2061, released 2026
From those four: 167 California programs, 87 Texas programs, 393 metro wage areas and 54 states and territories.
Method
How two board tables become one record
California publishes tuition and exam results in two separate documents that do not share an identifier, and do not always agree on a school’s name. A school can be “Angeles College, City of Industry” in one and “Angeles University, City of Industry” in the other. They are joined here by comparing names with institutional words removed, and where similarity is not decisive the pair is written out by hand rather than guessed.
Where a join could go either way, it is left unjoined. The fee table has one row for “Homestead Schools, Inc.” while the exam table reports its Torrance and Costa Mesa campuses separately, so no tuition figure is shown for either. Attaching one campus’s price to the other would be inventing a fact.
The result is 27 programs that sat the exam but are absent from the fee table - usually closed, renamed, or approved after the table was compiled - and 23 approved programs with no exam results in the last five years. Both are shown, with the missing column empty rather than filled in.
Limits
What this data cannot tell you
Tuition is approximate. It is what each school reported to the board, excludes books, uniform, background checks and exam fees, and is not dated. Treat it as the right order of magnitude, not a quote.
Pass rates are not causal. A program with a high pass rate may admit stronger candidates rather than teach better, and one with a low rate may take on people other programs would not. Small cohorts swing violently: a program that sat four candidates can move 25 points on one result. The five-year figure on each California page exists for that reason.
The correlation between price and pass rate is a description, not a prediction. At -0.42 across 110 programs it says expensive schools do not on average do better. It does not say a particular expensive school will do worse for you.
Wages are area medians. Federal wage data describes an occupation in an area at one point in time. It says nothing about your offer, your shift differential or your setting.
Independence
No school pays to appear here, to appear higher, or to have anything removed. There are no lead forms, nothing is sold to schools or recruiters, and no contact details are collected. Rankings are computed from board figures in the open, and the code that computes them is described on this page.
The site earns money from affiliate links on the kit list, which is disclosed on its own page and marked at every link.
Found an error, or run a program whose record here is wrong? The boards’ own documents are authoritative and are updated periodically; this site follows them. Corrections are welcome at [email protected].
Corrections and enquiries are handled by Nikko Salamanca. Contact: [email protected].