Friday, May 29, 2026

Harrisonburg

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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 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 ...

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...

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, ...