Upper East Texas News

Mount Pleasant High School had the highest enrollment among Titus County schools, welcoming 1,521 students during the 2022-23 academic year, according to the Texas Education Agency report.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 50.1% of the students were girls, and 49.9% were boys.

Data also showed that the majority of students were Hispanic, representing 71% of the Mount Pleasant High School total enrollment.

Among the 14 schools in Titus County, Mount Pleasant Junior High School ranked second in enrollment numbers with 760 students, while Harts Bluff Elementary School welcomed 690 students and ranked third in the 2022-23 school year.

Mount Pleasant High School is a part of Mount Pleasant ISD, which roughly covers schools within Titus County with its main office in Mount Pleasant.

In the previous school year, Mount Pleasant High School also had the highest number of students among Titus County schools.

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.

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 Name	City	Total School Enrollment
Mount Pleasant High School	Mount Pleasant	1,521
Mount Pleasant Junior High School	Mount Pleasant	760
Harts Bluff Elementary School	Mount Pleasant	690
P. E. Wallace Middle School	Mount Pleasant	658
Annie Sims Elementary School	Mount Pleasant	493
Chapel Hill Elementary School	Mount Pleasant	483
E. C. Brice Elementary School	Mount Pleasant	460
Child Development Center	Mount Pleasant	452
Vivian Fowler Elementary School	Mount Pleasant	404
Frances Corprew Elementary School	Mount Pleasant	402
Chapel Hill High School	Mount Pleasant	342
Chapel Hill Junior High School	Mount Pleasant	236
Harts Bluff Early College High School	Mount Pleasant	178
Mount Pleasant DAEP	Mount Pleasant	36