Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath (2024) | onestarfoundation.org
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath (2024) | onestarfoundation.org
Data showed that Brewster County welcomed 1,151 students during the 2021-22 school year. Among them, Black comprised 1% of the student body to be the fourth least represented ethnicity in the county.
Among the six schools in Brewster County, only Alpine Elementary School and Alpine Middle School enrolled any Black students, welcoming four 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alpine Elementary School | 1 | 382 |
| Alpine High School | 1 | 314 |
| Alpine Middle School | 1.4 | 278 |
| Big Bend High School | 0 | 111 |
| Marathon Independent School District | 0 | 57 |
| San Vicente Elementary School | 0 | 9 |
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