Verify a West Virginia Teacher (state certificate) license

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Live. We query the board directly for every check and the nightly canary is passing.

How West Virginia Teacher (state certificate) license verification works

A Teacher (state certificate) in West Virginia is licensed by the WV Childcare / Teacher Licensing. PrimaryCheck looks the license up live at the board's public verification system (board lookup) by license number, or by name when no number is supplied. The record the board publishes is captured as evidence, hashed, and rendered into a proof PDF.

Fields returned for this board: provider_number name contact contact_role license_type expires address county phone licensing_specialist capacities corrective_action_plans inspection_checklists flags.

Board note: childcare_provider via WV-ECE-LOCATOR: DoHS Bureau for Family Assistance / Division of Early Care and Education 'Provider Search' (wvdhhr.org/bfa/ece-locator, the page bfa.wv.gov/find-childcare-provider embeds; PHP, plain httpx, no captcha). POST index.php provider_name (substring) → 302 → GET index.php (session) → rows Agency Name / City / Zip / County / Phone / Contact '(Owner)' with details.php?id=<8-digit provider number>; GET details.php?id=N → name, address, phone, contact + role, licensing specialist, License Type (Initial / Regular / Provisional) with (Exp: date), capacity breakdown, corrective action plans (PDFs), inspection checklists; unknown id → near-empty page. Provider type is not printed. Verified when the claimant is the agency name or the printed contact; organisation otherwise → ambiguous_match; another person's home → discrepancy. Initial/provisional licences and CAPs are flags. Canaries 30004051 (Melissa Smith) and 30283044 (Campus Rec Kids, ambiguous). The old dhhr.wv.gov/bfa/ece/pages/providersearch.aspx and wvdhhr.org/bcf/ece/cccenters URLs are dead/legacy. Teachers are WVDE certification (not covered).

What a Teacher (state certificate) license check returns

Field check	Passes when
`license_number`	Equal to the board's number, ignoring prefix and leading zeros
`name`	Last name or declared alias matches; first name exact or nickname
`license_type`	The record is a Teacher (state certificate) license, strictly (no near-miss types)
`status`	The board shows an active status; probation is active with a flag
`expires`	Expiration is on or after today, where the board publishes it
`disciplinary_actions`	Recorded and flagged with any order documents; never silently dropped

Verdicts: verified, discrepancy, not_found, unable_to_verify (with a reason), pending. See how verdicts are decided.

Verify a West Virginia Teacher (state certificate) license by API

POST https://api.primarycheck.com/v1/verifications
{
  "person": { "firstName": "…", "lastName": "…" },
  "claims": [
    { "type": "license", "state": "WV", "profession": "teacher", "number": "…" }
  ],
  "purpose": "employment",
  "consent": { "consentId": "cons_…" }
}

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