Upper East Texas News

There were 4,563 Hispanic students enrolled in Titus County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2% more than the previous year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

Data showed that Titus County welcomed 7,115 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Hispanic students comprised 64.1% 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 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,080 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.

Underfunding is a frequently cited challenge facing the state's school districts. Per-pupil funding has not increased since 2019, despite inflation rates rising by more than 20% since then.

“As a result, many districts in our very own Central Texas region are being forced to cut back on essential programs, services, consider school closures, and adopt deficit budgets just to provide students with the education that they deserve,” Hutto ISD Trustee James Matlock said.

School name	% of Hispanic students enrolment	Total enrollment
Mount Pleasant High School	71	1,521
Mount Pleasant Junior High School	71.3	760
Harts Bluff Elementary School	51	690
P. E. Wallace Middle School	70.8	658
Annie Sims Elementary School	69.2	493
Chapel Hill Elementary School	41.2	483
E. C. Brice Elementary School	67.4	460
Child Development Center	75.7	452
Vivian Fowler Elementary School	72.3	404
Frances Corprew Elementary School	70.6	402
Chapel Hill High School	38.6	342
Chapel Hill Junior High School	40.7	236
Harts Bluff Early College High School	55.6	178
Mount Pleasant DAEP	77.8	36