Public Schools in West Virginia
648 schools · 60 districts · 250,705 students
Largest Schools in West Virginia
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
Morgantown High School
Morgantown
Cabell Midland High School
ONA
Musselman High School
Inwood
Huntington High School
Huntington
Parkersburg High School
Parkersburg
Wheeling Park High School
Wheeling
Spring Mills High School
Martinsburg
Martinsburg High School
Martinsburg
Parkersburg South High School
Parkersburg
Jefferson High School
Shenandoah Junction
Frequently Asked Questions
West Virginia has 648 public schools across 60 districts, serving 250,705 students.
The largest school in West Virginia is Morgantown High School with 1,859 students. West Virginia has 648 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 50%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.