County / FIPS 54047
McDowell County
West Virginia
McDowell County runs 10 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; West Virginia has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
10
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
533
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in McDowell County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$167.5M
Per resident
$8,764
Change since FY2021
−2%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $171M |
| 2022 | $177M |
| 2023 | $148M |
| 2024 | $165M |
| 2025 | $167M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. McDowell County ranks 1808th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in McDowell County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bradshaw Elementary School | Mcdowell County Schools | Bradshaw | 272 |
| Fall River Elementary School | Mcdowell County Schools | Big Sandy | 136 |
| Iaeger Elementary School | Mcdowell County Schools | Iaeger | 229 |
| Kimball Elementary School | Mcdowell County Schools | Kimball | 159 |
| Mount View High School | Mcdowell County Schools | Welch | 560 |
| River View High School | Mcdowell County Schools | Bradshaw | 408 |
| Sandy River Middle School | Mcdowell County Schools | Avondale | 239 |
| Southside K-8 | Mcdowell County Schools | War | 314 |
| Welch Elementary School | Mcdowell County Schools | Welch | 220 |
| Mcdowell Career & Technology Center | Mcdowell County Schools | Welch | — |