West Texas News

There were 79 Pacific Islander students enrolled in Lubbock County schools in the 2021-22 school year, 2.5% less than the previous year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

Data showed that Lubbock County welcomed 50,141 students during the 2021-22 school year. Among them, Pacific Islander comprised 0.2% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 92 schools in Lubbock County, Waters Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Pacific Islander students in the 2021-22 school year, with a total of five students.

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	% of Pacific Islander students enrolment	Total enrollment
Frenship High School	0.1	3,035
Monterey High School	0.1	2,113
Lubbock-Cooper High School	0	2,033
Coronado High School	0.1	1,958
Lubbock High School	0	1,873
Lubbock-Cooper Bush Middle School	0.1	992
Terra Vista Middle School	0	912
Estacado High School	0	909
Bennett Elementary School	0	873
Irons Middle School	0.1	867
Lubbock-Cooper Middle School	0	861
Frenship Middle School	0	859
Hutchinson Middle School	0	848
Upland Heights Elementary School	0	845
Evans Middle School	0.1	838
Heritage Middle School	0	827
Lubbock-Cooper Central Elementary School	0	798
Lubbock-Cooper North Elementary School	0.3	757
Lubbock-Cooper South Elementary School	0	729
Lubbock-Cooper East Elementary School	0	722
North Ridge Elementary School	0.3	718
Miller Elementary School	0	647
Centennial Elementary School	0.3	635
Lubbock-Cooper West Elementary School	0	621
Mackenzie Middle School	0.2	607
Oak Ridge Elementary School	0.2	605
Willow Bend Elementary School	0	599
Atkins Middle School	0	591
Smith Elementary School	0.7	580
Wilson Elementary School	0.3	579
Crestview Elementary School	0	576
Hardwick Elementary School	0.5	568
Westwind Elementary School	0.2	568
McWhorter Elementary School	0.4	549
Shallowater Middle School	0.2	517
Roberts Elementary School	0	516
Cavazos Middle School	0.6	513
Bayless Elementary School	0.6	511
Waters Elementary School	1	501
Whiteside Elementary School	0.4	497
Shallowater High School	0	492
Roosevelt Elementary School	0.4	489
Alderson Elementary School	0	479
Ramirez Elementary School	0	474
Legacy Elementary School	0.2	460
Bean Elementary School	0	456
Cathelene Thomas Elementary School	0	455
Dunbar College Preparatory Academy	0.2	451
Talkington School for Young Women Leaders	0	438
Harwell Elementary School	0	423
Idalou Elementary School	0	404
Stewart Elementary School	0.3	389
Commander William C. McCool Academy	0	388
Slaton Middle School	0.5	384
Shallowater Intermediate School	0.8	379
Ervin Elementary School	0.3	378
Wester Elementary School	1.1	378
Slaton High School	0	377
Honey Elementary School	0.3	374
Parsons Elementary School	0.3	364
Brown Elementary School	0.8	360
Shallowater Elementary School	0	353
Roosevelt High School	0.6	335
Williams Elementary School	0.9	331
Rush Elementary School	0.3	318
Wheelock Elementary School	0.3	312
Idalou Middle School	0	311
Maedgen Elementary School	0.3	311
Overton Elementary School	0	306
Rise Academy	0	305
Idalou High School	0	291
Roosevelt Junior High School	0.3	290
Slaton Junior High School	0	285
Hodges Elementary School	0	275
Wolffarth Elementary School	0.7	270
New Deal Elementary School	0	267
New Deal Middle School	0	228
New Deal High School	0.4	226
Dupre Elementary School	0	197
Elementary for Education Innovation	0.5	185
Triumph Public High Schools-Lubbock	0	178
Priority Intervention Academy	0	176
Stephen F. Austin Primary School	0	163
Matthews Academy	0	95
Lubbock-Cooper New Hope Academy	0	77
Homebound	0	47
Lubbock County Juvenile Justice Center	0	45
Lubbock County JJAEP	0	12
DAEP	0	4
New Deal DAEP	0	4
Slaton ISD DAEP	0	3
L. C. Y. C.	0	2