Raleigh County
West Virginia Has Lost Students for 13 Straight Years
No state in the country has had a year like West Virginia just did. The 2025-26 school year brought the steepest single-year enrollment loss since COVID, with 7,693 students vanishing from the rolls. ...
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...
Kanawha County hits all-time low after losing 6,400 students
Every year since 2014, Kanawha County has started the school year with fewer students than the year before. Thirteen consecutive years of decline have carried West Virginia's largest district from 28,...