Aldine
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 Slowed
Texas public schools added 1,095,302 students between 2004-05 and 2019-20, a 25.0% increase. The gains continued in the next five-year period, but at a much slower pace: 51,326 students, compared with...
Houston and Dallas Graduation Rates Rose Across Five Classes
Houston ISD and Dallas ISD both improved their graduation rates between the classes of 2020 and 2024. Houston rose from 82.0% to 84.3%, a gain of 2.3 percentage points. Dallas rose from 82.0% to 84.4%...
Houston ISD Reached a Historical Low in 2024-25; Newer Reports Show Another Decline
Houston ISD reached the lowest count in its complete historical reporting window in 2024-25: 176,039 students. The separate newer enrollment reports counted 168,812 in 2025-26, last school year, down ...