Upper East Texas News

Titus County schools enrolled 4,614 students who identified as being at risk during the 2021-22 school year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

This is a 3% increase over the previous school year.

Of the 6,990 students enrolled in Titus County schools, 66% of them are considered to be at risk.

Titus County had the 64th highest number of at-risk students among Texas counties.

Education in Texas is often a hot button issue, especially as test scores lag behind other states.

“The problems commonly cited are flaws in the school financing system, relatively low teacher salary, poor test performance by students…dropouts from traditional schools in favor of charter schools…gun violence, and mental health issues”, claimed the Texas Almanac.

School	Number of at-risk students	Total Number of students
Mount Pleasant High School	1,034	1,508
Mount Pleasant Junior High School	616	787
Harts Bluff Elementary School	413	696
P. E. Wallace Middle School	485	663
Annie Sims Elementary School	399	478
Chapel Hill Elementary School	171	463
Child Development Center	340	461
E. C. Brice Elementary School	292	432
Frances Corprew Elementary School	366	403
Vivian Fowler Elementary School	285	383
Chapel Hill High School	79	340
Chapel Hill Junior High School	56	243
Harts Bluff Early College High School	55	109
Mount Pleasant DAEP	23	24