Panhandle Times

There were four multiracial students enrolled in Friona ISD schools in the 2022-23 school year, 33.3% less than the previous year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

Data showed that Friona ISD schools welcomed 1,063 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 0.4% of the student body to be one of the least represented ethnicities in the district.

Friona ISD roughly covers schools within Parmer County and has a main office in Friona.

Friona High School was the only school in the district which enrolled multiracial students, welcoming four 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 Multiracial Students	Multiracial students %
2022-23	1,063	4	0.4%
2021-22	1,080	6	0.6%
2020-21	1,086	3	0.3%
2019-20	1,136	3	0.3%