Henrico County
Virginia Counts 5,429 Homeless Students as Chronically Absent, but Its Public Files Do Not Support a Rate
Virginia's 2022-23 chronic absenteeism file reports 5,429 students identified as homeless who missed at least 10% of the school year. The same file reports 234,822 chronically absent students statewid...
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...