Corpus Christi Sun

San Patricio County schools enrolled 6,743 students who identified as being at risk during the 2021-22 school year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

This is an 8.4% increase over the previous school year.

Of the 13,665 students enrolled in San Patricio County schools, 49.3% of them are considered to be at risk.

San Patricio County had the 54th highest number of at-risk students among Texas counties.

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.

School	Number of at-risk students	Total Number of students
Gregory-Portland High School	596	1,362
Gregory-Portland Middle School	492	1,140
Ingleside High School	253	628
Sinton High School	295	626
Clark Elementary School	275	609
Andrews Elementary School	287	591
Welder Elementary School	272	556
East Cliff Elementary School	235	541
Ingleside Primary School	313	497
Austin Elementary School	259	493
Aransas Pass High School	264	476
H. T. Faulk Elementary School	93	467
Mathis Elementary School	148	454
E. Merle Smith Middle School	326	445
Mathis High School	222	430
Gilbert Junior Mircovich Elementary School	243	409
Sinton Elementary School	210	401
Woodroe Petty Elementary School	286	394
A. C. Blunt Middle School	150	368
Charlie Marshall Elementary School	200	365
Mathis Middle School	175	319
Leon Taylor Junior High School	174	316
Taft High School	192	285
Odem High School	99	283
Mathis Intermediate School	171	240
Odem Elementary School	29	212
Ricardo L. Trevino Junior High School	159	209
Odem Junior High School	111	174
Odem Intermediate School	79	170
Blaschke/Sheldon Elementary School	80	150
Coastal Horizons Academy	49	49
Juvenile Detention Center	6	6