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One in 14 Virginia Students Now Identifies as Multiracial
In 2011, the first year Virginia reported a "two or more races" category, 48,759 students checked the box. Fourteen years later, 88,633 do. That 81.8% increase makes multiracial students the fastest-g...
Virginia Beach Improved Its Graduation Rate Four Years Running. It Did So With 5,000 Students.
Virginia Beach City graduated 95.3% of its 5,111-student cohort in 2023, an all-time high. It is the fourth consecutive year the division improved.
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 35 Virginia school divisions, out of 131, that can say enrollment has returned to where it was before the pandemic. The other 9...
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...