Texas State Board Of Education Chair Keven Ellis (2024) | twitter.com/KevenEllisDC
Texas State Board Of Education Chair Keven Ellis (2024) | twitter.com/KevenEllisDC
Data showed that San Patricio County welcomed 13,616 students during the 2021-22 school year. Among them, Black comprised 1.2% of the student body to be the fourth least represented ethnicity in the county.
Among the 31 schools in San Patricio County, only Gregory-Portland High School and Gregory-Portland Middle School enrolled any Black students, welcoming 17 students each 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.
| School name | % of Black students enrolment | Total enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Gregory-Portland High School | 1.2 | 1,362 |
| Gregory-Portland Middle School | 1.5 | 1,140 |
| Ingleside High School | 1.4 | 628 |
| Sinton High School | 1.4 | 626 |
| Clark Elementary School | 0.7 | 609 |
| Andrews Elementary School | 1 | 591 |
| Welder Elementary School | 0.9 | 556 |
| East Cliff Elementary School | 0.9 | 541 |
| Ingleside Primary School | 1 | 497 |
| Austin Elementary School | 2 | 493 |
| Aransas Pass High School | 0.8 | 476 |
| H. T. Faulk Elementary School | 1.7 | 467 |
| Mathis Elementary School | 0.9 | 454 |
| E. Merle Smith Middle School | 1.6 | 445 |
| Mathis High School | 0.9 | 430 |
| Gilbert Junior Mircovich Elementary School | 0.7 | 409 |
| Sinton Elementary School | 1 | 401 |
| Woodroe Petty Elementary School | 0.8 | 394 |
| A. C. Blunt Middle School | 3.8 | 368 |
| Charlie Marshall Elementary School | 3 | 365 |
| Mathis Middle School | 0.6 | 319 |
| Leon Taylor Junior High School | 1.3 | 316 |
| Taft High School | 0.7 | 285 |
| Odem High School | 1.1 | 283 |
| Mathis Intermediate School | 0.4 | 240 |
| Odem Elementary School | 0 | 212 |
| Ricardo L. Trevino Junior High School | 1.4 | 209 |
| Odem Junior High School | 0 | 174 |
| Odem Intermediate School | 1.2 | 170 |
| Blaschke/Sheldon Elementary School | 0 | 150 |
| Juvenile Detention Center | 0 | 6 |
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