IDEA Public Schools
94 Texas Districts Are Over 90% Hispanic
Four Texas school districts reported 100% Hispanic enrollment in 2025-26. Not 99%. Not rounding up. Every student. La Villa ISD, a 459-student district in the Rio Grande Valley, is one of them. So is ...
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 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 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
Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that 12th grade enrollment rose 34.8% from 2014 to 2026. The increase from 305,243 to 394,947 students is 29.4%. The article has been updated.