Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Houston ISD

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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 ...

Houston ISD Hits Its Lowest Point in Two Decades

Katy ISD enrolled 44,212 students in 2005. Houston ISD enrolled 208,454. The suburban district on Houston's western edge was roughly one-fifth the size of its urban neighbor.

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...