Upper East Texas News

There were 4,474 Hispanic students enrolled in Titus County schools in the 2021-22 school year, 0.4% less than the previous year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

Data showed that Titus County welcomed 6,990 students during the 2021-22 school year. Among them, Hispanic comprised 64% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 14 schools in Titus County, Mount Pleasant High School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2021-22 school year, with a total of 1,064 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 Hispanic students enrolment	Total enrollment
Mount Pleasant High School	70.6	1,508
Mount Pleasant Junior High School	72.3	787
Harts Bluff Elementary School	51.1	696
P. E. Wallace Middle School	72.4	663
Annie Sims Elementary School	68.6	478
Chapel Hill Elementary School	38.4	463
Child Development Center	73.5	461
E. C. Brice Elementary School	66.9	432
Frances Corprew Elementary School	71.5	403
Vivian Fowler Elementary School	74.9	383
Chapel Hill High School	37.9	340
Chapel Hill Junior High School	39.9	243
Harts Bluff Early College High School	52.3	109
Mount Pleasant DAEP	54.2	24