Upper East Texas News

There were 66 American Indian students enrolled in Bowie County schools in the 2021-22 school year, 18.5% less than the previous year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

Data showed that Bowie County welcomed 17,408 students during the 2021-22 school year. Among them, American Indian comprised 0.4% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 43 schools in Bowie County, Liberty-Eylau High School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2021-22 school year, with a total of eight students.

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 name	% of American Indian students enrolment	Total enrollment
Texas High School	0.4	1,707
Texas Middle School	0.4	1,403
Pleasant Grove High School	0.7	763
Nash Elementary School	0	659
Liberty-Eylau High School	1.3	618
Liberty-Eylau Elementary School	0	607
Crestview Elementary School	0.2	591
Wake Village Elementary School	0	574
Liberty-Eylau Middle School	0.4	564
Margaret Fischer Davis Elementary School	0.5	548
Pleasant Grove Middle School	0.2	545
Maud School	0.4	474
Pleasant Grove Intermediate School	0.6	465
Spring Lake Park Elementary School	0.3	393
Theron Jones Early Literacy Center	0	382
Westlawn Elementary School	0	371
Highland Park Elementary School	0.3	361
Liberty-Eylau Early Childhood Center	0.6	342
Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School	0.3	342
Redwater High School	0.3	341
New Boston High School	0.6	337
Redwater Elementary School	0.6	331
Eschool Prep	0.3	313
Hooks High School	0	312
Red Lick Elementary School	0.6	309
Waggoner Creek Elementary School	1	304
Dekalb Elementary School	0.7	302
Hooks Elementary School	0.3	297
Paul Laurence Dunbar Early Education Center	0	282
Hooks Junior High School	0	277
New Boston Middle School	0.7	270
Dekalb High School	0.4	253
Redwater Middle School	0.4	235
Dekalb Middle School	0.9	228
Malta Elementary School	1.4	208
James Bowie Elementary School	0	198
Redwater Junior High School	0	196
Red Lick Middle School	0	192
James Bowie High School	0	158
James Bowie Middle School	0	117
Leary Elementary School	0	105
Hubbard ISD	0	69
Options	0	65