Panhandle Times

There were 10 multiracial students enrolled in Wheeler ISD schools in the 2022-23 school year, 11.1% more than the previous year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

Data showed that Wheeler ISD schools welcomed 387 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 2.6% of the student body to be one of the least represented ethnicities in the district.

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

Wheeler School was the only school in the district which enrolled multiracial students, welcoming 10 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	387	10	2.6%
2021-22	408	9	2.2%
2020-21	417	10	2.4%
2019-20	459	8	1.7%