Unlike similar governing bodies in the United States, the WVSSAC does not dictate individual high school schedules during the regular season; those decisions are made by the coaches involved.

[2] Prior to the decision in Brown v. Board of Education, West Virginia maintained "colored" high schools.

Eventually the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that this unfairly disadvantaged girls in competition for college scholarships and the organization was forced to adopt a traditional schedule.

There also were complaints that the disparity of enrollment in the old Class AAA made it difficult for the smaller schools in the classification to compete, particularly in football.

The 2024 algorithm system and moving to four classes was also used, in part, to ease the disparity between school enrollment size.

Multiple schools appealed the new for 2024 classification system, mostly claiming that the metric of distance to a town of 10,000 was misapplied.