Education Data
ZoomWV
ZoomWV is the state’s single public source for accurate, high-quality education information pertaining to students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12.
WV Accountability System
West Virginia Schools Balanced Scorecard outlines accountability ratings annually for each public school in the Mountain State as part of West Virginia’s School Accountability System.
ZoomWV Data Dashboard
Find a variety of information about West Virginia schools, including enrollment, state assessment results, and graduation rates.
What ZoomWV Can Do For You
ZoomWV offers tools and data for educators, families, and the public to understand school performance, drive improvement, and support student success in West Virginia.
West Virginia Education Information System (WVEIS)
WVEIS 2.0 Support provides access to online resources, training materials, and technical support for users of the WVEIS system.
Education Snapshot in Numbers
View the most recent education data snapshot for West Virginia’s public schools.
Data Surveys
Surveys, reports, and guidance for data-driven planning.
Learning Environment Surveys
West Virginia schools can use surveys to gather important data on the learning environment and student well-being. Schools can participate twice a year to guide improvements, with resources and consent forms provided to support participation.
School Climate Surveys
West Virginia schools participating in the Climate Surveys receive detailed reports, a climate index score, and tools to enhance learning conditions.
Staff in the Support, Compliance and Research team have responsibility for validating data quality and managing public and restricted web-based data dashboards and specific external data requests.
West Virginia Education Information System (WVEIS)
The West Virginia Education Information System (WVEIS) has been in use since 1990 as the state’s data system for education. WVEIS securely stores student records and other education data entered by school staff. Tools like ZoomWV and the Early Warning System use this data to create secure, public reports that help improve educational decisions.
All data are certified for validity and accuracy before they are made available through ZoomWV.
WVEIS collects a broad array of student data, including those described in the Student Level Information report.
What is ZoomWV?
ZoomWV is the state’s single public source for accurate, high-quality education information pertaining to students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12. ZoomWV helps drive improvement in instruction and student performance in West Virginia, in part by making information available in easy-to-understand aggregate reports at the state, regional, county, and school level. With ZoomWV, teachers, school, district regional, and state personnel will be able to make more informed educational decisions (see Potential uses of data in ZoomWV section to the left). And, as always, ZoomWV protects the privacy and confidentiality of West Virginia’s students (see Network security design section to the left).
Go to The ZoomWV Data Dashboard.
Where Does ZoomWV Get Its Data?
ZoomWV is West Virginia’s new tool for organizing and reporting information stored in the West Virginia Education Information System (WVEIS). WVEIS, which has been used since 1990, is West Virginia’s state longitudinal data system (also called an SLDS). Secure WVEIS servers store education records and information from the time the data are entered by school personnel. ZoomWV uses the information already stored in WVEIS and makes it available—in secure, aggregate public reports—for better educational decision making.
Data for ZoomWV are pulled from WVEIS and stored in a secure data warehouse. The data in the warehouse are displayed through the dashboards and reports you see in ZoomWV.
ZoomWV users will have different levels of access to the information based on their roles and needs. Educators will have secure access to student-level data; the public will have access to aggregate or grouped information.
What Can ZoomWV Do For You?
ZoomWV gives educators, families, policymakers, researchers, and businesses the tools and data to understand school performance, improve education, and support student success. Whether you’re making decisions for your child, classroom, or community, ZoomWV provides the insights you need.
ZoomWV Network Security Design
Educational data is an asset that is essential to WVDE’s business and must be diligently protected. The Department works with staff and vendors to ensure that all legal and regulatory obligations are met—particularly for our data system.
ZoomWV leverages the Edvantage Data Warehouse (Edvantage) technology platform provided by Versifit Technologies. The Edvantage solution employs best security practices to ensure that both data at rest and data in transit are protected. To learn more about how the Edvantage technology secures the ZoomWV data, the ZoomWV Secure/Internal environment infrastructure, and the ZoomWV Public environment infrastructure, download the ZoomWV Edvantage Solution Network Security pamphlet
How To Make ZoomWV Data Requests
Researchers play a critical role in helping educators, policymakers, and state agency staff members make good, defensible decisions. ZoomWV provides valid, reliable, Family Education Right Protection Act (FERPA)-compliant information that does not compromise student privacy.
To request education information not currently available through the ZoomWV public reports, please complete the Download the Data Request Form, providing as much information as possible to assist WVDE staff in determining the best way to respond. Follow the instructions on the Data Request form to submit your data request.
Student data are available only in aggregate and/or de-identified formats. Pursuant to FERPA and WVBE Policy 4350, WVDE will not release student-level data or other personally identifiable information to external parties except when subject to formal research or data access/disclosure agreements legally binding all parties to specific terms and requirements.
Proposing New Data Elements
As our education system evolves, the need for information evolves with it. From time to time, it may be necessary to propose collecting new or different information to help monitor progress and ensure that all students can achieve at high levels. When that happens, WVDE will post notices explaining the proposed changes and why they are needed. West Virginia citizens will have a chance to comment on any proposals for new additions to the education data system.
Open for Public Comment
Proposed Data Collection: Career Technical Education: Credentialing Data Description and Information
HeaderLooking for ZoomWV Help?
If you have questions about WVDE data or need help with any problems encountered while using ZoomWV, please send an email to ZoomWV@help.k12.wv.us. A representative from WVDE will respond to your help request as quickly as possible.
To ensure that your help request is processed and addressed quickly, please provide the following information in your email:
- Your name and contact information
- A description of your question or the problem you are experiencing
- The type of web browser you were using while experiencing the problem
- A web link to the problem page
West Virginia School Directory
The West Virginia School Directory lists all public schools in the state by county. You can download all addresses in a comma-delimited format, which can be used in any spreadsheet or database application that supports CSV files. You will also find a listing of non-public schools in the state.
View the WVDE School Directory.
Public Education in West Virginia Source Books
Every year, the WVDE publishes a compendium of information on a host of topics, including,
- Property taxes
- Public school support program
- Approved budgets – county boards of education
- Revenues and expenditures
- Student enrollment data
- Personnel data
- Salary data
- School data
- Student transportation data
- Child nutrition data