Raleigh County
Raleigh County, West Virginia's 6th Largest, Hits All-Time Low at 90.6%
Independence Middle School in Raleigh County posted an 87.1% attendance rate in 2024-25. Independence High School posted 88.3%. Together, the two Independence schools anchor the bottom of Raleigh Coun...
Kanawha County's Attendance Hit an All-Time Low While the State Improved
George Washington High School in Charleston posted a 95.2% attendance rate in 2024-25, higher than the state average, and among the best high schools in West Virginia. Twelve miles south, Riverside Hi...
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...
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,...