Dallas 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...
Fort Worth ISD's V-Shaped Recovery: From 81.0% Trough to 82.6%, but Still Below Pre-COVID Level
Fort Worth ISD reported a graduation rate of 81.0% for the Class of 2022, down 4.4 percentage points from its 85.4% rate for the Class of 2020.
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%...
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 ...
Nearly One-Quarter of Texas Students Were Classified as English Learners in 2024-25
Texas reported 1,345,031 students in its English-learner category in 2024-25, or 24.3% of the published statewide enrollment total. That was close to one-quarter of all students in that reporting year...
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...