West Texas News

Hale County schools enrolled 3,740 students who identified as being at risk during the 2021-22 school year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

This is a 5.3% increase over the previous school year.

Of the 6,558 students enrolled in Hale County schools, 57% of them are considered to be at risk.

Hale County had the 75th 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
Plainview High School	946	1,490
Coronado Middle School	358	582
Estacado Middle School	338	534
La Mesa Elementary School	198	482
Thunderbird Elementary School	311	400
Abernathy Elementary School	135	395
Edgemere Elementary School	187	337
Highland Elementary School	217	332
College Hill Elementary	196	310
Petersburg School	137	276
Hillcrest Elementary School	169	265
Akin Elementary School	122	256
Abernathy High School	74	255
Carr Middle School	128	188
Abernathy Middle School	69	174
Hale Center High School	109	155
Cotton Center School	19	99
Hale County JJAEP	19	20
DAEP	4	4
Lockney DAEP	3	3
Abernathy DAEP	1	1