Upper East Texas News

Titus County schools enrolled 5,103 students who identified as economically disadvantaged in the state during the 2021-22 school year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

Of the 6,990 students enrolled in Titus County schools, 73% were considered economically disadvantaged. This is a 3.7% increase over the previous school year.

Titus County enrolled the 71st highest number of students identified as economically disadvantaged 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 Economically Disadvantaged Students	Total Number of Students
Mount Pleasant High School	1,132	1,508
Mount Pleasant Junior High School	640	787
P. E. Wallace Middle School	544	663
Harts Bluff Elementary School	432	696
Child Development Center	425	461
Annie Sims Elementary School	356	478
Frances Corprew Elementary School	352	403
Vivian Fowler Elementary School	338	383
E. C. Brice Elementary School	335	432
Chapel Hill Elementary School	233	463
Chapel Hill High School	130	340
Chapel Hill Junior High School	98	243
Harts Bluff Early College High School	65	109
Mount Pleasant DAEP	23	24