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West Virginia school safety

City and district rankings from federal incident data · 2021-22 collection

668SCHOOLS

633WITH TRUSTED DATA

19RANKED CITIES

Safest ranked cities in West Virginia

Percentile is against all ranked U.S. cities (higher = safer). Only cities with ≥5 trustworthy-data schools are ranked. Home value is Zillow's ZHVI.

#	CITY	SAFETY PCTL	SCHOOLS	HOME VALUE
1	Fairmont	94	9 of 9	$197,573
2	Hurricane	82	7 of 7	$278,720
3	Summersville	81	5 of 5	$199,120
4	Parkersburg	77	17 of 18	$151,551
5	Elkins	69	7 of 9	$172,191
6	Martinsburg	66	16 of 19	$315,677
7	Hedgesville	61	5 of 6	$343,816
8	Princeton	49	10 of 11	$179,901
9	Beckley	49	11 of 11	$154,440
10	Wheeling	49	14 of 14	$155,477
11	Morgantown	48	11 of 15	$289,582
12	Bluefield	46	7 of 7	$120,979
13	Charleston	42	26 of 26	$172,278
14	St. Albans	26	8 of 8	—
15	Buckhannon	24	7 of 7	$162,912
16	Clarksburg	23	8 of 10	$122,306
17	Charles Town	13	5 of 5	$410,730
18	Huntington	9	17 of 18	$145,252
19	Moundsville	7	5 of 5	$130,846

Safest ranked districts

#	DISTRICT	SAFETY PCTL	SCHOOLS
1	TAYLOR COUNTY SCHOOLS	90	5 of 5
2	ROANE COUNTY SCHOOLS	90	5 of 5
3	MINERAL COUNTY SCHOOLS	90	12 of 14
4	MARION COUNTY SCHOOLS	90	19 of 19
5	HAMPSHIRE COUNTY SCHOOLS	90	8 of 9
6	GRANT COUNTY SCHOOLS	90	5 of 5
7	GREENBRIER COUNTY SCHOOLS	77	12 of 13
8	PUTNAM COUNTY SCHOOLS	72	22 of 22
9	WOOD COUNTY SCHOOLS	69	25 of 27
10	LOGAN COUNTY SCHOOLS	69	17 of 17
11	NICHOLAS COUNTY SCHOOLS	67	13 of 13
12	HARDY COUNTY SCHOOLS	61	6 of 6
13	BERKELEY COUNTY SCHOOLS	60	27 of 32
14	CLAY COUNTY SCHOOLS	59	6 of 6
15	RANDOLPH COUNTY SCHOOLS	56	12 of 13
16	LEWIS COUNTY SCHOOLS	54	6 of 6
17	MCDOWELL COUNTY SCHOOLS	53	9 of 9
18	OHIO COUNTY SCHOOLS	53	13 of 13
19	FAYETTE COUNTY SCHOOLS	53	11 of 12
20	WYOMING COUNTY SCHOOLS	50	14 of 14
21	BRAXTON COUNTY SCHOOLS	48	8 of 8
22	MERCER COUNTY SCHOOLS	45	23 of 24
23	WAYNE COUNTY SCHOOLS	43	17 of 18
24	MONROE COUNTY SCHOOLS	43	5 of 5
25	MASON COUNTY SCHOOLS	42	10 of 11

Every West Virginia city with schools

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