Texas State Board Of Education Chair Keven Ellis (2024) | twitter.com/KevenEllisDC
Texas State Board Of Education Chair Keven Ellis (2024) | twitter.com/KevenEllisDC
Data showed that Bastrop County welcomed 17,933 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 3.9% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.
Among the 25 schools in Bastrop County, Elgin Intermediate School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 73 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 Black students enrolment | Total enrollment |
---|---|---|
Cedar Creek High School | 2.3 | 2,002 |
Bastrop High School | 4.2 | 1,621 |
Cedar Creek Elementary School | 0.8 | 1,077 |
Cedar Creek Middle School | 1 | 1,040 |
Cedar Creek Intermediate School | 0.9 | 932 |
Bastrop Middle School | 4.6 | 929 |
Elgin Elementary School | 7 | 847 |
Emile Elementary School | 3.7 | 803 |
Mina Elementary School | 8.2 | 785 |
Bastrop Intermediate School | 4.7 | 781 |
Elgin Middle School | 9.1 | 780 |
Bluebonnet Elementary School | 2.6 | 761 |
Booker T. Washington Elementary School | 3.3 | 750 |
Elgin Intermediate School | 10.3 | 706 |
Smithville Elementary School | 5 | 702 |
Red Rock Elementary School | 0.4 | 698 |
Lost Pines Elementary School | 0.9 | 696 |
Smithville High School | 6.8 | 575 |
Smithville Junior High School | 6.3 | 412 |
Colorado River Collegiate Academy | 0.4 | 236 |
McDade Elementary School | 0 | 201 |
Brown Primary School | 5.1 | 196 |
McDade High School | 0.6 | 155 |
Genesis High School | 4.8 | 145 |
Founders Classical Academy-Bastrop | 1 | 103 |
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