Aldine ISD
Texas Reports Graduation Rates for Every Racial Group. The Black-White Gap Has Barely Moved.
The Texas Education Agency publishes a four-year graduation rate for every racial and ethnic group it tracks, and it has done so in every year from the Class of 2020 through the Class of 2024. For Bla...
Most Stable Texas Districts Grew, Yet State Enrollment Fell by 47,195
Correction: An earlier draft treated a linear trend as an expected enrollment path and attached causal explanations the enrollment data could not establish. This revision reports observed Texas Educat...
Aldine Rebounded 6.2 Points as Donna Extended a Four-Year Streak
Correction: An earlier version overstated Aldine's enrollment, understated Donna's Hispanic enrollment share, and reported the wrong statewide graduation-rate series. It also presented unsupported pov...
One in Two Dallas Students Is Learning English
In 2004-05, fewer than one in three Dallas ISD students was classified as an English learner. Twenty years later, it is one in two. The district's LEP share hit 50.5% in 2023-24 and held at 50.4% in 2...
Texas Added 1.1 Million Students, Then Enrollment Growth Stopped
For 15 consecutive years, from 2006 through 2020, Texas public schools added students. Every single year. The gains were so reliable they became background noise: 121,701 in 2006, 96,574 in 2010, 79,4...
Houston and Dallas: Texas's Two Largest Districts Both Graduate Under 85%
Texas's two largest school districts tell a similar story with different details. Houston ISD graduated 84.3% of its Class of 2024. Dallas ISD graduated 84.4%. Both sit about 6 percentage points below...
Nearly Half of Texas's Largest Districts Are at All-Time Lows
Seven of Texas's 15 largest school districts are at the lowest enrollment ever recorded. Two are at their highest. The other six fall somewhere between their peaks and their floors.
Houston ISD Hits Its Lowest Point in Two Decades
Katy ISD enrolled 44,212 students in 2005. Houston ISD enrolled 208,454. The suburban district on Houston's western edge was roughly one-fifth the size of its urban neighbor.
The Growth Machine Stalls
Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that 12th grade enrollment rose 34.8% from 2014 to 2026. The increase from 305,243 to 394,947 students is 29.4%. The article has been updated.