Virginia Beach
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 2024, the 2024-25 school year and the most recent in the state's published data. That is the fewest in the 23 years of state records...
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 20% Recovery
For 15 consecutive years, Virginia's public schools grew. Enrollment rose in every school year from 2003-04 through 2017-18, climbing by 116,921 students from its 2002-03 level, driven by Northern Vir...
Virginia Publishes 2024-25 Enrollment Data
Virginia's public schools enrolled 1,261,670 students in fall 2024, according to VDOE's Fall Membership data for 2024-25, the most recent school year in the state's published data. That is 592 fewer t...