Cypress-Fairbanks 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...
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...
Texas Has More Seniors Than Kindergartners for the First Time
In 2012, Texas kindergartens enrolled 86,027 more students than 12th grade classrooms. The ratio was 129.4 to 100: for every 100 seniors, there were 129 kindergartners lined up behind them, a pipeline...
One in Four Texas Students Now Learns English as a Second Language
Half the students in Dallas ISD are classified as English learners. Not in a magnet program or a single campus, but across the entire district: 70,422 students who need language support services in a ...
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...
One in Four: White Students Fall Below 25% of Texas Enrollment
In 2005, more than one in three Texas public school students was white. Two decades later, the ratio is fewer than one in four, and the gap is widening.