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16 West Virginia Counties Have Recovered Pre-COVID Attendance; 15 More on Three-Year Improvement Streaks
Tucker County added 1.74 percentage points to its attendance rate between 2018-19 and 2024-25. Morgan County lost 3.22 points over the same period. Both are small, rural, overwhelmingly white counties...
Berkeley County: West Virginia's lone bright spot
Of West Virginia's 55 county school districts, 52 had fewer students in 2025-26 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 t...
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...