Analysis of West Virginia’s State School Aid Funding Formula
Recommendations to Enhance Adequacy, Fairness, and Efficiency of State Funding for Education
ResearchPublished Jan 30, 2026
This report, prepared for the West Virginia House of Delegates, is intended to provide an independent, holistic assessment of the state’s school aid funding formula and to identify opportunities for improvements in the state’s funding strategy. The authors use a combination of prior research on funding issues, benchmarks and examples from funding formulas nationwide, and analysis of state and national data sets to inform their recommendations.
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- Availability: Web-Only
- Year: 2026
- Pages: 45
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/RRA4161-1
- Document Number: RR-A4161-1
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Master, Benjamin K., Brian Phillips, Ben Senator, Nathan Remillard, Luke Muggy, and Srikant Kumar Sahoo, Analysis of West Virginia’s State School Aid Funding Formula: Recommendations to Enhance Adequacy, Fairness, and Efficiency of State Funding for Education, RAND Corporation, RR-A4161-1, 2026. As of May 5, 2026: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA4161-1.html
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Master, Benjamin K., Brian Phillips, Ben Senator, Nathan Remillard, Luke Muggy, and Srikant Kumar Sahoo, Analysis of West Virginia’s State School Aid Funding Formula: Recommendations to Enhance Adequacy, Fairness, and Efficiency of State Funding for Education. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2026. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA4161-1.html.
Funding for this research was provided by the West Virginia House of Delegates. This work was conducted by the RAND Rural America Partnership within RAND Education, Employment, and Infrastructure.
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