Corpus Christi Sun

There were 494 students enrolled in Ben Bolt-Palito Blanco ISD schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0.6% less than the previous year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 52% of them were boys, and 48% were girls.

Data also shows that the majority of students were Hispanic, representing 89.1% 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 266 students in the 2022-23 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.

School	Total Enrollment
Ben Bolt-Palito Blanco Elementary School	266
Ben Bolt-Palito Blanco High School	228