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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...
Texas Free/Reduced-Price Lunch Eligibility Stayed Near 60% for 13 School Years
Correction: This article now identifies the measure as free/reduced-price lunch eligibility, uses published enrollment totals for every share, and removes language that treated the measure as a direct...
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%...
IDEA Ranked Above Austin ISD, With a Small Annual Enrollment Gain
IDEA Public Schools reported 79,608 students last school year, 2025-26, placing it 6th among 1,200 districts and charter entities with published enrollment totals. It was larger than Austin ISD, at 69...
Five Major Texas Districts Are Below Their Enrollment Peaks
Houston, Dallas, Austin, Fort Worth and San Antonio ISDs were all below their enrollment peaks in the state's 2024-25 performance reports. But being below a peak is different from being at a historica...
Texas Districts Reach Opposite Ends of Their Enrollment Histories
Texas districts were reaching opposite ends of their enrollment histories before the newest statewide decline. In the annual performance reports for 2024-25, 224 districts matched their lowest counts ...
The Growth Machine Stalls
Texas's newer Student Enrollment Reports counted 5,467,642 public school students in 2025-26, last school year and the most recent published year used here. That was 76,613 fewer than the preceding ye...