Loudoun 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...
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...
In One Virginia Division, 79% Earn an Advanced Diploma. In Another, 17%.
Virginia offers two main paths to a high school diploma. The Advanced Studies diploma requires 26 credits, including more rigorous coursework. The Standard diploma requires 22. Both satisfy graduation...
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, ...