Upper East Texas News

There were 23 Pacific Islander students enrolled in Bowie County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 35.3% more 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, Pacific Islander students comprised 0.1% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 44 schools in Bowie County, Hooks Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Pacific Islander students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of four 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 Pacific Islander students enrolment	Total enrollment
Texas High School	0	1,719
Texas Middle School	0	1,413
Pleasant Grove High School	0	796
Nash Elementary School	0	677
Crestview Elementary School	0.2	584
Wake Village Elementary School	0	579
Liberty-Eylau Elementary School	0	575
Liberty-Eylau Middle School	0.3	573
Liberty-Eylau High School	0	532
Margaret Fischer Davis Elementary School	0.2	530
Pleasant Grove Middle School	0.4	501
Pleasant Grove Intermediate School	0	483
Maud School	0.4	476
Spring Lake Park Elementary School	0	408
Theron Jones Early Literacy Center	0	386
Highland Park Elementary School	0	364
Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School	0.3	358
Westlawn Elementary School	0	346
Redwater High School	0.3	339
Waggoner Creek Elementary School	0	338
Liberty-Eylau Early Childhood Center	0	323
Dekalb Elementary School	0	321
New Boston High School	0.6	321
Hooks High School	0	319
Hooks Elementary School	1.3	317
Redwater Elementary School	0.6	313
Red Lick Elementary School	0	306
Paul Laurence Dunbar Early Education Center	0.7	296
Hooks Junior High School	0	284
Dekalb High School	0	272
New Boston Middle School	0	249
Dekalb Middle School	0	235
Redwater Middle School	0.9	227
Eschool Prep	0.4	227
Red Lick Middle School	0	221
Malta Elementary School	0	220
James Bowie Elementary School	0	212
Redwater Junior High School	0	180
Premier High School of Texarkana	0	142
James Bowie High School	0	140
James Bowie Middle School	0	132
Leary Elementary School	0	93
Hubbard ISD	0	77
Options	0	69