Texas State Board Of Education Chair Keven Ellis (2024) | twitter.com/KevenEllisDC
Texas State Board Of Education Chair Keven Ellis (2024) | twitter.com/KevenEllisDC
Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 50.7% of them were boys, and 49.3% were girls.
Data also showed that the majority of students were Hispanic, representing 82.2% of the Plainview High School total enrollment.
Among the 12 schools in Hale County, Abernathy Elementary School ranked second in enrollment numbers with 411 students, while Petersburg School welcomed 272 students and ranked third in the 2022-23 school year.
Plainview High School is a part of Plainview ISD, which roughly covers schools within Hale County with its main office in Plainview.
In the previous school year, Plainview High School also had the highest number of students among Hale County schools.
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.
Education in Texas is often a hot button issue, especially as test scores lag behind other states.
“The problems commonly cited are flaws in the school financing system, relatively low teacher salary, poor test performance by students, dropouts from traditional schools in favor of charter schools, gun violence, and mental health issues,” claimed the Texas Almanac.
| School Name | City | Total School Enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Plainview High School | Plainview | 1,442 |
| Abernathy Elementary School | Abernathy | 411 |
| Petersburg School | Petersburg | 272 |
| Akin Elementary School | Hale Center | 248 |
| Abernathy High School | Abernathy | 243 |
| Abernathy Middle School | Abernathy | 180 |
| Carr Middle School | Hale Center | 178 |
| Hale Center High School | Hale Center | 159 |
| Cotton Center School | Cotton Center | 100 |
| Hale County JJAEP | Plainview | 27 |
| DAEP | Shallowater | 3 |
| Lockney DAEP | Lockney | 2 |
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