Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath (2024) | onestarfoundation.org
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath (2024) | onestarfoundation.org
Data showed that Brooks County welcomed 1,342 students during the 2021-22 school year. Among them, American Indian comprised 0.1% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.
Among the five schools in Brooks County, only Falfurrias High School and Falfurrias Innovation Academy enrolled any American Indian students, welcoming one student each in the 2021-22 school year.
Texas is found to be one of the least educated states in the U.S. A study from WalletHub ranked Texas 41st out of 50 states in terms of the quality of the educational system and how successful students were.
More than 5.4 million students are enrolled in public schools across Texas. Nearly one million of them live in rural areas where options for local public schools are few and far between.
| School name | % of American Indian students enrolment | Total enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Falfurrias High School | 0.2 | 407 |
| Falfurrias Junior High School | 0 | 312 |
| Falfurrias Elementary School | 0 | 272 |
| Lasater Elementary School | 0 | 182 |
| Falfurrias Innovation Academy | 0.6 | 169 |
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