San Antonio ISD
San Antonio's Edgewood ISD: More Than Half of Students Chronically Absent
Correction: An earlier draft overstated two Edgewood subgroup rates and incorrectly said every subgroup was above a common threshold. The analysis and subgroup chart now use the package-backed values....
Fort Worth ISD's V-Shaped Recovery: From 81.0% Trough to 82.6%, but Still Below Pre-COVID Level
Fort Worth ISD, Texas's fifth-largest school district, hit a graduation rate of 81.0% for the Class of 2022, down 4.4 percentage points from its 85.4% rate two years earlier. The COVID-era dip was the...
Houston and Dallas: Texas's Two Largest Districts Both Graduate Under 85%
Texas's two largest school districts tell a similar story with different details. Houston ISD graduated 84.3% of its Class of 2024. Dallas ISD graduated 84.4%. Both sit about 6 percentage points below...
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...
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.
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.