Upper East Texas News

Cass County schools enrolled 393 students who were identified as being gifted and talented during the 2021-2022 school year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

This is a 3.7% increase over the previous school year.

Of the 5,408 students enrolled in Cass County schools, 7.3% of them were considered to be gifted and talented.

Cass County enrolled the 86th highest number of gifted and talented students among Texas counties.

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	Number of gifted and talented students	Total Number of students
Atlanta Elementary School	33	427
Atlanta High School	58	510
Atlanta Middle School	51	377
Atlanta Primary School	32	597
Avinger School	2	137
Bloomburg School	2	241
Hughes Springs Elementary School	27	541
Hughes Springs High School	10	333
Hughes Springs Junior High School	21	272
J. K. Hileman Elementary School	7	364
Linden Elementary School	17	334
Linden-Kildare High School	14	164
Mae Luster Stephens Junior High School	17	140
McLeod Elementary School	12	153
McLeod High School	15	114
McLeod Middle School	17	133
Morris Upchurch Middle School	24	270
Queen City High School	34	301