Upper East Texas News

There were 459 Black students enrolled in Hopkins County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.7% less than the previous year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

Data showed that Hopkins County welcomed 6,834 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 6.7% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 17 schools in Hopkins County, Sulphur Springs High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 133 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
Sulphur Springs High School	10.5	1,263
Sulphur Springs Middle School	9.2	974
Como-Pickton School	1.4	734
Sulphur Springs Elementary School	8.9	639
Barbara Bush Primary School	10.5	342
Bowie Primary School	7.2	319
Miller Grove School	0	317
Rowena Johnson Primary School	16.2	315
North Hopkins Elementary School	0.3	289
Travis Primary School	1.1	267
Saltillo School	2.8	248
North Hopkins High School	0	227
Sulphur Bluff ISD	1.3	227
Douglass Eclc	19.1	225
Cumby High School	0.9	216
Cumby Elementary School	0	215
Austin Academic Center	0	17