Ben Bolt-Palito Blanco ISD Education: 497 students were enrolled in schools in 2021-22 school year

TX Commissioner of Education Mike Morath 2023 | State Board for Education

By Corpus Christi Sun

Dec 28, 2023

There were 497 students enrolled in Ben Bolt-Palito Blanco ISD schools in the 2021-22 school year, 4.6% less than the previous year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2021-22 school year, 51.5% of them were boys, and 48.5% were girls.

Data also shows that the majority of students were Hispanic, representing 93.8% of the Ben Bolt-Palito Blanco ISD total enrollment.

Ben Bolt-Palito Blanco ISD roughly covers schools within Jim Wells County with its main office in Alice.

Among the two schools in Ben Bolt-Palito Blanco ISD, Ben Bolt-Palito Blanco Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of 262 students 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.

Enrollment in Ben Bolt-Palito Blanco ISD Over 3 Years