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West Virginia Has Lost Enrollment for 13 Straight Years
> Correction: An earlier version used stale enrollment values. This version uses the current West Virginia Department of Education enrollment release and re-runs the full 2011-2026 panel.
Kanawha County hits all-time low after losing 6,326 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,...
The Hope Scholarship Shadow: 21,000 Fewer Students in Four Years
West Virginia's public schools lost 7,693 students in 2025-26, 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,...