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One in 14 Virginia Students Now Identifies as Multiracial
Correction (July 21, 2026): A July 3 fact-check corrected multiracial students' 2011 rank from second-smallest to third-smallest but did not add the required visible notice. This audit also found that...
Virginia Beach Was the Only Complete-Panel Division With Four Straight Graduation Gains
Correction: An earlier version called the five-year panel maximum an all-time high, described Virginia Beach's cohort as the state's second-largest, and misstated the division's dropout-rate range. It...
One in Three Virginia Divisions at Record-Low Enrollment
Virginia Beach City Public Schools enrolled 64,823 students in fall 2025. 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 t...
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...
Norfolk Has Lost Students Every Year for 22 Years
Norfolk Public Schools enrolled 36,745 students in 2002-03. In 2024-25, the count was 26,832. Between those two years, enrollment fell every single year: 22 consecutive annual declines, a streak no ot...
Virginia's 19% Recovery
For 15 consecutive years, Virginia's public schools grew. From 2003-04 through 2017-18, enrollment climbed by 116,921 students, driven by Northern Virginia's suburban expansion and steady immigration....
Virginia Publishes 2024-25 Enrollment Data
Virginia's public schools enrolled 1,261,501 students in fall 2024, according to the latest Fall Membership data from VDOE. That is 608 fewer than the year before, 36,511 below the 2019-20 peak of 1,2...