IDEA Public Schools
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
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...