Panhandle Times

Wheeler County schools enrolled 404 students who identified as being at risk during the 2021-22 school year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

This is a 14.1% increase over the previous school year.

Of the 1,086 students enrolled in Wheeler County schools, 37.2% of them are considered to be at risk.

Wheeler County had the 51st lowest number of at-risk students among Texas counties.

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	Number of at-risk students	Total Number of students
Wheeler School	165	408
Shamrock Elementary School	72	187
Fort Elliott School	50	159
Kelton School	44	137
Shamrock High School	38	116
Shamrock Middle School	35	79