Upper East Texas News

Pittsburg High School had the highest enrollment among Camp County schools, welcoming 726 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, 54.3% of them were boys, and 45.7% were girls.

The most represented ethnicity among Pittsburg High School students was Hispanic, accounting for 42.6% of the student population.

Among the five schools in Camp County, Pittsburg Elementary School ranked second in enrollment numbers with 545 students, while Pittsburg Primary School welcomed 444 students and ranked third in the 2022-23 school year.

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

In the previous school year, Pittsburg High School also had the highest number of students among Camp 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
Pittsburg High School	Pittsburg	726
Pittsburg Elementary School	Pittsburg	545
Pittsburg Primary School	Pittsburg	444
Pittsburg Junior High School	Pittsburg	349
Pittsburg Intermediate School	Pittsburg	296