Upper East Texas News

There were two Pacific Islander students enrolled in Titus County schools in the 2021-22 school year, 60% 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, Pacific Islander comprised 0% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 14 schools in Titus County, only Mount Pleasant Junior High School and Vivian Fowler Elementary School enrolled any Pacific Islander students, welcoming one student each in the 2021-22 school year.

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 Pacific Islander students enrolment	Total enrollment
Mount Pleasant High School	0	1,508
Mount Pleasant Junior High School	0.1	787
Harts Bluff Elementary School	0	696
P. E. Wallace Middle School	0	663
Annie Sims Elementary School	0	478
Chapel Hill Elementary School	0	463
Child Development Center	0	461
E. C. Brice Elementary School	0	432
Frances Corprew Elementary School	0	403
Vivian Fowler Elementary School	0.3	383
Chapel Hill High School	0	340
Chapel Hill Junior High School	0	243
Harts Bluff Early College High School	0	109
Mount Pleasant DAEP	0	24