Frisco 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...
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.
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.