Austin ISD
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 more than 10 percentage points ...
IDEA Public Schools Is Now Bigger Than Austin ISD
In 2005, a charter school called IDEA Academy enrolled 659 students across a handful of campuses in the Rio Grande Valley. Twenty-one years later, IDEA Public Schools is the sixth-largest school syste...
Texas' Five Largest Urban Districts All Hit Record Lows
Texas added nearly 1.1 million students to its public schools between 2005 and 2026, a 25.1% increase. But the five districts that once anchored that system are moving in the opposite direction. Houst...
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.
The Growth Machine Stalls
For 15 consecutive years, Texas added students. Every year from 2006 through 2020, the enrollment count climbed, absorbing 1.1 million new students over a period when most large states were already sh...