Upper East Texas News

There were 5,345 Black students enrolled in Bowie County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0.7% less than the previous year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

Data showed that Bowie County welcomed 17,473 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 30.6% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 44 schools in Bowie County, Texas High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 690 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 Black students enrolment	Total enrollment
Texas High School	40.1	1,719
Texas Middle School	45.4	1,413
Pleasant Grove High School	14.3	796
Nash Elementary School	30	677
Crestview Elementary School	22.8	584
Wake Village Elementary School	42.1	579
Liberty-Eylau Elementary School	54.3	575
Liberty-Eylau Middle School	61.1	573
Liberty-Eylau High School	58.3	532
Margaret Fischer Davis Elementary School	12.1	530
Pleasant Grove Middle School	15.4	501
Pleasant Grove Intermediate School	14.7	483
Maud School	4.8	476
Spring Lake Park Elementary School	68.4	408
Theron Jones Early Literacy Center	85	386
Highland Park Elementary School	39	364
Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School	14.5	358
Westlawn Elementary School	82.1	346
Redwater High School	2.7	339
Waggoner Creek Elementary School	20.1	338
Liberty-Eylau Early Childhood Center	54.5	323
Dekalb Elementary School	15.3	321
New Boston High School	20.2	321
Hooks High School	12.9	319
Hooks Elementary School	9.8	317
Redwater Elementary School	1.3	313
Red Lick Elementary School	1	306
Paul Laurence Dunbar Early Education Center	82.4	296
Hooks Junior High School	11.3	284
Dekalb High School	18.8	272
New Boston Middle School	20.1	249
Dekalb Middle School	18.3	235
Redwater Middle School	4.4	227
Eschool Prep	13.2	227
Red Lick Middle School	2.7	221
Malta Elementary School	2.7	220
James Bowie Elementary School	0	212
Redwater Junior High School	4.4	180
Premier High School of Texarkana	45.1	142
James Bowie High School	0.7	140
James Bowie Middle School	0	132
Leary Elementary School	2.2	93
Hubbard ISD	0	77
Options	49.3	69