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In 39 of 55 Counties, Multiracial Is Now the Largest Non-White Group
In 2011, West Virginia's public schools counted 1,181 multiracial students. Fifteen years later, that number is 10,553, a nearly ninefold increase that has made multiracial the largest non-white group...
West Virginia Loses 7,693 Students in a Single Year
The last time West Virginia's public schools lost this many students in a single year, a pandemic had just shuttered classrooms across the state. In 2025-26, there is no pandemic. There is no hurrican...
The Hope Scholarship Shadow: 21,000 Fewer Students in Four Years
West Virginia's public schools lost 7,693 students this year, 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 8,9...