Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath (2024) | onestarfoundation.org
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath (2024) | onestarfoundation.org
Data showed that Marathon ISD schools welcomed 59 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Hispanic students comprised 64.4% of the student body to be one of the most represented ethnicities in the district.
Marathon ISD roughly covers schools within Brewster County and has a main office in Marathon.
Marathon Independent School District was the only school in the district which enrolled Hispanic students, welcoming 38 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.
| Year | Total District Enrollment | Total of Hispanic Students | Hispanic students % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 59 | 38 | 64.4% |
| 2021-22 | 57 | 39 | 68.4% |
| 2020-21 | 60 | 43 | 71.7% |
| 2019-20 | 57 | 43 | 75.4% |
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