Table of contents
•	Title page
•	Introduction
•	Acknowledgments
•	National Summary
	State Profiles
	-	Alabama
	-	Alaska
	-	Arizona
	-	Arkansas
	-	California
	-	Colorado
	-	Connecticut
	-	Delaware
	-	District of Columbia
	-	Florida
	-	Georgia
	-	Hawaii
	-	Idaho
	-	Illinois
	-	Indiana
	-	Iowa
	-	Kansas
	-	Kentucky
	-	Louisiana
	-	Maine
	-	Maryland
	-	Massachusetts
	-	Michigan
	-	Minnesota
	-	Mississippi
	-	Missouri
	-	Montana
	-	Nebraska
	-	Nevada
	-	New Hampshire
	-	New Jersey
	-	New Mexico
	-	New York
	-	North Carolina
	-	North Dakota
	-	Ohio
	-	Oklahoma
	-	Oregon
	-	Pennsylvania
	-	Puerto Rico
	-	Rhode Island
	-	South Carolina
	-	South Dakota
	-	Tennessee
	-	Texas
	-	Utah
	-	Vermont
	-	Virginia
	-	Washington
	-	West Virginia
	-	Wisconsin
	-	Wyoming
•	Sources
•	Appendix A
•	Appendix B
•	Appendix C
•	Full report in PDF format (956K)

State Education Indicators With a Focus on Title I

A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n

West Virginia
http://wvde.state.wv.us/

School and Teacher Demographics
Student Demographics
Statewide Accountability Information
Title I Schools
Assessment Information
Student Achievement 1998-1999
NAEP State Results
Printable version of this profile (PDF format)

School and Teacher Demographics

Number of districts
(CCD, 1998-99)

Number of public schools in state
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High	Combined	Other
518	136	135	22	5

Student/teacher ratio
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High
15:1	15:1	16:1

Number of FTE teachers in state
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High	Combined	Other
9,808	4,162	5,531	432	38

Public school enrollment
	1989-90	1998-99
K-8 (CCD)	227,251	199,644
9-12 (CCD)	100,289	91,155
Pre-K (by state definition)	n/a	5,822

Sources of funding
District average
(CCD, 1996-97)

State 62.7%, Local 28.1%, Federal 9.2%

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Student Demographics

Race/ethnicity
(CCD, K-12)
	1989-90	1998-99
American Indian/Alaskan Natives	0.0%	0.1%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0.4	0.3
Black	3.9	4.2
Hispanic	0.2	0.5
White	95.5	94.9

Students with disabilities
(OSEP, K-12)
1990-91	1998-99
12.3%	15.1%

Limited English proficient
(USED/NCBE, K-12)
1989-90	1996-97
273	n/a

Migrant
(OME, K-12)
1993-94	1998-99
256	307

High school dropout rate
(CCD, event)
1993-94	1997-98
4.2%	4.1%

Postsecondary enrollment
(IPEDS, High school grads enrolled in college)
1994-95	1997-98
50%	54%

All schools by percent of students eligible to participate in the Free Lunch Program*
(CCD, 1998-99)

For 0 to 34%, 272 schools; 35 to 49%, 228 schools; 50 to 74%, 261 schools; and 75 to 100%, 53 schools.

*Two schools did not report.

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Statewide Accountability Information

Statewide Goal for Schools on State Assessment
>50 percent at/above 3rd quartile, < 15 percent in 1st quartile, or decrease in 1st quartile in 2 of last 3 years

Expected School Improvement on Assessment
Achieve goals for school by the target year

Indicators for School Accountability
NRT; attendance, dropout, and graduation rates; and class size

Title I Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for Schools
Transition: Same as statewide goal

Schools Meeting Title I AYP Goal
326(71.5%)

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Title I Schools

Title I enrollment
(USED)
	1998-99
K-8	87,600
9-12	2,354
Pre-K	n/a

Race/ethnicity
(USED, K-12)
	Schoolwide	Targeted Assistance
American Indian/Alaskan Natives	60	n/a
Asian/Pacific Islander	220	n/a
Black	9,551	390
Hispanic	1,450	49
White	69,458	10,984

Title I allocation
(Includes Basic, Concentration, and LEA grants, Capital Expenditures, Even Start, Migrant Education, and Neglected & Delinquent, USED, 1998-99)

$74,826,252

Number of schools with Title I programs
Schoolwide vs. targeted assistance (USED)

In 1996, 39 schools with schoolwide programs and 468 schools with targeted assistance; in 1998, 258 schoolwide, 201 targeted assistance; in 1999, 323 schoolwide, 133 targeted assistance

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Assessment Information

Assessment Reported
Stanford Achievement Test Version 9, used since 1996-97

Progress Toward Assessment Aligned with Standards
Performance standards did not meet review criteria of the U.S. Department of Education.

State Definition of "Proficient"
Student results are placed in quartiles; there is no definition of proficient

Exclusion from Assessment
IEP

Other Assessments
WV Writing Assessment

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Student Achievement 1998-1999

Percentage of students meeting state proficiency levels

Grade 4

Reading/ Language Arts
		Bottom	Low Middle	Upper Middle	Top
All Students		16.0%	24.8%	27.8%	31.4%
Title I Schoolwide		19.6	27.2	27.3	25.9
Title I Targeted		16.0	24.1	28.1	31.8
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students
Migrant students

Mathematics
		Bottom	Low Middle	Upper Middle	Top
All Students		10.6%	23.0%	29.4%	36.9%
Title I Schoolwide		13.1	24.9	29.4	32.7
Title I Targeted		10.3	22.4	28.2	39.1
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students
Migrant students

Grade 8

Reading/Language Arts
		Bottom	Low Middle	Upper Middle	Top
All Students		12.8%	24.5%	31.0%	31.8%
Title I Schoolwide		15.4	24.3	31.8	28.5
Title I Targeted		15.0	25.2	30.7	29.1
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students
Migrant students

Mathematics
		Bottom	Low Middle	Upper Middle	Top
All Students		12.8%	23.7%	31.1%	32.4%
Title I Schoolwide		15.6	26.3	31.7	26.3
Title I Targeted		12.6	23.4	32.6	31.4
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students
Migrant students

Grade 10

Reading/Language Arts
	Bottom	Low Middle	Upper Middle	Top
All Students	18.9%	24.9%	26.4%	29.8%
Title I Schoolwide	30.9	26.8	24.5	17.8
Title I Targeted	22.4	26.1	24.1	27.3

Mathematics
	Bottom	Low Middle	Upper Middle	Top
All Students	17.4%	25.0%	28.8%	28.9%
Title I Schoolwide	25.2	23.8	31.0	20.0
Title I Targeted	19.0	28.5	26.1	26.3

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NAEP State Results
	Grade 4	Grade 8
Reading, 1998:
Proficient level and above	29%	27%
Basic level and above	62%	74%
Math, 2000:
Proficient level and above	18%	18%
Basic level and above	67%	62%