Chesterfield County
Richmond's Enrollment Decline Is Real, But VAVA Blurs the Baseline
Richmond City still has fewer students in the state fall-membership file than it did two decades ago: 26,136 in 2003 and 21,427 in 2025, a loss of 4,709 students, or 18.0%.
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...
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, 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...
White Students Are Now 43% of Virginia's Schools
In 2016-17, white students dropped below half of Virginia's public school enrollment for the first time in state records going back to 2002-03. Eight years later, they make up 43.4% of the state's 1,2...
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...