Upper East Texas News

There were 7,156 students enrolled in Texarkana ISD schools in the 2021-22 school year, 6.5% less than the previous year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2021-22 school year, 50.3% of them were girls, and 49.7% were boys.

The most represented ethnicity among Texarkana ISD students was African American, accounting for 44.7% of the student population.

Texarkana ISD roughly covers schools within Bowie County with its main office in Texarkana.

Among the 13 schools in Texarkana ISD, Texas High School recorded the highest enrollment of 1,707 students 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	Total Enrollment
Texas High School	1,707
Texas Middle School	1,403
Nash Elementary School	659
Wake Village Elementary School	574
Spring Lake Park Elementary School	393
Theron Jones Early Literacy Center	382
Westlawn Elementary School	371
Highland Park Elementary School	361
Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School	342
Eschool Prep	313
Waggoner Creek Elementary School	304
Paul Laurence Dunbar Early Education Center	282
Options	65