Chesterfield County
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 this fall. That is the fewest in the division's history, dating back at least 23 years, and 11,474 fewer than its 2004 peak. It is also the ...
Hampton City Graduates 96% of Its Students. Most Larger Divisions Cannot Say the Same.
Hampton City graduated 96.4% of its 1,461-student cohort in 2023. Its dropout rate was 0.8%, among the lowest in the state.
One in Five Virginia Students Is Now Hispanic
In Manassas Park, seven of every 10 students are Hispanic. White enrollment has fallen to 9.8%, down from 19.8% eight years ago. Two hours south in the Shenandoah Valley, Harrisonburg crossed the majo...
Three in Four Virginia Divisions Never Recovered from COVID
Stafford County added 1,872 students between 2020 and 2025. It is one of 35 Virginia school divisions, out of 131, that can say enrollment has returned to where it was before the pandemic. The other 9...
White Students Are Now 43% of Virginia's Schools
In 2014, white students dropped below half of Virginia's public school enrollment for the first time. Eleven years later, white students make up 43.4% of the state's 1,261,501 public school students, ...
Virginia's 19% Recovery
For 15 consecutive years, Virginia's public schools grew. From 2003-04 through 2017-18, enrollment climbed by 116,921 students, driven by Northern Virginia's suburban expansion and steady immigration....