Django: Unit Test Fixtures not loading in VSCode Debug Mode

I have written some unit tests with Django, with fixtures set up. I want to debug these tests and have a configuration on VSCode to do this...

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  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "Django: Test Unit Case",
      "type": "debugpy",
      "request": "launch",
      "args": [
        "test",
        "apps.students",
        "-v 2"
      ],
      "django": true,
      "autoStartBrowser": false,
      "program": "${workspaceFolder}\\server\\manage.py"
    },
    ...
  ]
}

I have my FIXTURE_DIR configured correctly, as when I run the command py manage.py test apps.students, the fixtures load and give no error. However, when I try to run and debug, I get the following error...

Found 6 test(s).
Creating test database for alias 'default' ('file:memorydb_default?mode=memory&cache=shared')...
Operations to perform:
  Synchronize unmigrated apps: corsheaders, django_extensions, messages, rest_framework, staticfiles
  Apply all migrations: admin, auth, ballots, contenttypes, election_count_strategies, polls, programme_groupings, programmes, sessions, students, token_blacklist, users, year_groups
Synchronizing apps without migrations:
  Creating tables...
    Running deferred SQL...
Running migrations:
  Applying contenttypes.0001_initial... OK
  Applying contenttypes.0002_remove_content_type_name... OK
  Applying auth.0001_initial... OK
  ...
System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
setUpClass (apps.students.tests.YearRepresentiveTestCase) ... ERROR

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ERROR: setUpClass (apps.students.tests.YearRepresentiveTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\fiona\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\django\test\testcases.py", line 1389, in setUpClass
    call_command(
  File "C:\Users\fiona\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 194, in call_command
    return command.execute(*args, **defaults)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\fiona\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py", line 459, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\fiona\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\loaddata.py", line 103, in handle
    self.loaddata(fixture_labels)
  File "C:\Users\fiona\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\loaddata.py", line 156, in loaddata
    if self.find_fixtures(fixture_label):
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\fiona\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\loaddata.py", line 351, in find_fixtures
    raise CommandError("No fixture named '%s' found." % fixture_name)
django.core.management.base.CommandError: No fixture named 'students' found.

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Ran 0 tests in 0.065s

FAILED (errors=1)
Destroying test database for alias 'default' ('file:memorydb_default?mode=memory&cache=shared')...

I have my FIXTURE_DIR set up in my settings.py...

FIXTURE_DIRS = [
    'fixtures'
]

Why are my fixtures loading fine when I run py manage.py test apps.students in the command line, but not when I use run and debug with VSCode's debugger? Thank you for any help!