Jefferson County
One in 18 West Virginia Students Is Now Classified as Homeless
In Jefferson County, 1,160 students are classified as homeless, more than any other county in the state, in a district you might not associate with the word. Jefferson County sits in the Eastern Panha...
Berkeley County: West Virginia's lone bright spot
Of West Virginia's 55 county school districts, 52 have fewer students today than they did in 2011. The state as a whole has lost 52,484 students over that span, an 18.6% decline that ranks among the s...
One in Three: Clay County's Hidden Housing Crisis
In Clay County, 447 of the school system's 1,336 students are classified as experiencing homelessness under federal law. That is 33.5% of enrollment, a rate more than eight times the statewide average...
A 13,000-Student Gap Shrinks to 726
In 2011, seven coal counties in southern West Virginia enrolled 42,554 students. Three Eastern Panhandle counties, tucked against the Maryland border 250 miles away, enrolled 29,182. The gap between t...
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...