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West Virginia Has Lost Enrollment for 13 Straight Years
> Correction: An earlier version used stale enrollment values. This version uses the current West Virginia Department of Education enrollment release and re-runs the full 2011-2026 panel.
West Virginia's Enrollment Loss Is the Largest Since COVID
The current West Virginia enrollment panel shows 234,957 public school students in 2025-26, down 6,067 from 2024-25 — a 2.5% decline. The 2021 loss was larger, at 9,276 students; the 2025-26 loss is t...
The Hope Scholarship Shadow: 21,000 Fewer Students in Four Years
West Virginia's public schools lost 7,693 students in 2025-26, a 3.2% drop that ranks as the second-largest single-year loss in the state's recorded history. Only the pandemic year of 2020-21, when 8,...