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Petersburg's Chronic Absenteeism Has Climbed Every Year Since 2019-20, Reaching 43%
Every year from 2019-20 through 2022-23, Petersburg City Schools reported a higher chronic absenteeism rate than the year before.
118 Virginia Divisions Had Higher Chronic Absence in 2022-23 Than in 2019-20
Correction, July 28, 2026: An earlier version of this article listed Radford City among the divisions whose chronic absenteeism improved. Radford's published rate fell because a large, low-absence vir...
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 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 ...
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...