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One in Seven Virginia Students Is an English Learner

Manassas City enrolls 7,663 students. More than half of them, 4,005, are classified as English learners. In Manassas Park, the number is 50.7%. These are not large urban school systems absorbing a nat...

One in Three Virginia Divisions at Record-Low Enrollment

Virginia Beach City Public Schools enrolled 64,823 students in fall 2024, the 2024-25 school year and the most recent in the state's published data. That is the fewest in the 23 years of state records...

Fairfax County Lost 8,371 Students While Its Population Grew

Fairfax County Public Schools enrolled 188,930 students in 2019-20, the culmination of 17 years of nearly unbroken growth. Five years later, the division enrolled 180,559, a loss of 8,371 students, or...

One in Five Virginia Students Is Now Hispanic

In Manassas Park, 70.7% of students are Hispanic. White enrollment has fallen to 9.8%, down from 19.8% in 2016-17. Two hours south in the Shenandoah Valley, Harrisonburg crossed the majority-Hispanic ...

Three in Four Virginia Divisions Never Recovered from COVID

Stafford County added 1,872 students between 2020 and 2025. It is one of 34 Virginia school divisions, out of 130 after reconciling the Alleghany/Covington merger, that can say enrollment has returned...

Virginia's 20% Recovery

For 15 consecutive years, Virginia's public schools grew. Enrollment rose in every school year from 2003-04 through 2017-18, climbing by 116,921 students from its 2002-03 level, driven by Northern Vir...