What West Virginia School Districts Spend Per Student
The median West Virginia school district spends $13,784 per student per year, $759 below the national median of $14,543, across all 56 districts the state reports. The 55 of them a ZIP code can reach are listed below, and their 252,207 students account for $3.5 billion of current spending in fiscal year 2022.
West Virginia at a Glance
| Median district, per student | $13,784 |
|---|---|
| National median district | $14,543 |
| Districts listed | 55 of 56 |
| Students listed | 252,207 |
| Median district, math | 36% |
| Median district, reading | 43% |
Every West Virginia District, by Enrollment
Spending is current spending divided by fall membership for fiscal year 2022. Proficiency and graduation rates are school year 2018-19, the last year before the pandemic interrupted state testing, so the money and the results are not from the same year. A figure marked ≈ is one the federal file published as a range rather than a value, so small groups of children stay unidentifiable; it is the middle of that range and within ten points of the real one. A dash means the federal files publish no value under that district's ID. 1 further West Virginia districts are missing because the federal boundary file places them in no ZIP code, which is normal for charter and virtual districts with no attendance area.
| District | Students | Per student | Math | Reading | Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kanawha County School District | 24,392 | $13,227 | 42% | 47% | 86% |
| Berkeley County School District | 19,722 | $12,704 | 33% | 44% | 96% |
| Wood County School District | 11,893 | $12,407 | 48% | 52% | 91% |
| Cabell County School District | 11,667 | $14,538 | 38% | 48% | 89% |
| Monongalia School District | 11,309 | $13,751 | 50% | 55% | 91% |
| Raleigh County School District | 10,797 | $13,014 | 37% | 45% | 87% |
| Harrison County School District | 9,975 | $13,777 | 39% | 46% | 93% |
| Putnam County School District | 9,136 | $13,149 | 53% | 56% | 97% |
| Jefferson County School District | 8,682 | $12,888 | 42% | 53% | 90% |
| Mercer County School District | 8,642 | $12,553 | 39% | 43% | 90% |
| Marion County School District | 7,411 | $14,086 | 44% | 51% | 91% |
| Wayne County School District | 6,348 | $13,938 | 40% | 48% | 86% |
| Fayette County School District | 5,594 | $13,777 | 29% | 35% | 88% |
| Logan County School District | 5,181 | $14,016 | 33% | 41% | 91% |
| Ohio County School District | 5,027 | $15,508 | 43% | 55% | 98% |
| Greenbrier County School District | 4,705 | $14,147 | 38% | 47% | 92% |
| Marshall County School District | 4,304 | $17,204 | 34% | 40% | 94% |
| Preston County School District | 4,239 | $12,280 | 30% | 39% | 91% |
| Jackson County School District | 4,097 | $13,765 | 44% | 51% | 92% |
| Mineral County School District | 4,023 | $13,447 | 38% | 41% | 97% |
| Upshur County School District | 3,952 | $12,738 | 27% | 37% | 90% |
| Mingo County School District | 3,919 | $13,013 | 35% | 42% | 98% |
| Mason County School District | 3,890 | $13,331 | 33% | 43% | 93% |
| Hancock County School District | 3,679 | $13,708 | 48% | 48% | 97% |
| Wyoming County School District | 3,632 | $14,097 | 31% | 46% | 93% |
| Randolph County School District | 3,623 | $13,137 | 29% | 37% | 97% |
| Nicholas County School District | 3,498 | $12,734 | 35% | 41% | 94% |
| Boone County School District | 3,177 | $14,663 | 36% | 43% | 90% |
| Lincoln County School District | 3,087 | $13,994 | 27% | 38% | ≈92% |
| Hampshire County School District | 2,814 | $13,823 | 41% | 46% | 85% |
| McDowell County School District | 2,622 | $14,404 | 22% | 34% | 87% |
| Brooke County School District | 2,582 | $15,642 | 32% | 34% | 96% |
| Lewis County School District | 2,469 | $13,616 | 31% | 35% | ≈92% |
| Wetzel County School District | 2,305 | $20,316 | 36% | 41% | ≈92% |
| Taylor County School District | 2,290 | $12,944 | 41% | 47% | ≈92% |
| Morgan County School District | 2,219 | $13,159 | 29% | 37% | ≈87% |
| Barbour County School District | 2,144 | $11,885 | 32% | 36% | ≈98% |
| Hardy County School District | 2,139 | $13,282 | 31% | 42% | ≈92% |
| Roane County School District | 1,802 | $13,635 | 25% | 38% | ≈92% |
| Braxton County School District | 1,747 | $13,153 | 26% | 36% | ≈98% |
| Clay County School District | 1,669 | $13,825 | 35% | 46% | ≈87% |
| Monroe County School District | 1,639 | $15,940 | 36% | 43% | ≈98% |
| Grant County School District | 1,610 | $12,881 | 38% | 51% | ≈92% |
| Summers County School District | 1,361 | $13,790 | 26% | 36% | ≈92% |
| Ritchie County School District | 1,251 | $15,536 | 42% | 46% | ≈92% |
| Tyler County School District | 1,230 | $20,580 | 42% | 47% | ≈92% |
| Webster County School District | 1,208 | $13,300 | 24% | 34% | ≈92% |
| Doddridge County School District | 1,082 | $23,563 | 41% | 48% | ≈98% |
| Pleasants County School District | 1,067 | $16,391 | 39% | 46% | ≈98% |
| Tucker County School District | 957 | $14,963 | 31% | 42% | ≈92% |
| Pocahontas County School District | 945 | $17,317 | 35% | 40% | ≈92% |
| Wirt County School District | 923 | $15,976 | 37% | 38% | ≈85% |
| Pendleton County School District | 870 | $17,768 | 38% | 45% | ≈95% |
| Calhoun County School District | 861 | $16,085 | 31% | 46% | ≈98% |
| Gilmer County School District | 800 | $16,268 | 33% | 38% | ≈92% |
Sources
Spending and enrollment come from the NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) for fiscal year 2022. Proficiency and graduation rates come from EDFacts for school year 2018-19. Districts are matched to ZIP codes through the NCES EDGE geographic relationship file. Nothing on this page is estimated or modelled: a figure is read from a federal source file or it is left blank.
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