Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath (2024) | onestarfoundation.org
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath (2024) | onestarfoundation.org
Data showed that Childress County welcomed 1,014 students during the 2021-22 school year. Among them, American Indian comprised 0.3% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.
Among the three schools in Childress County, Childress Junior High School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2021-22 school year, with a total of two students.
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 American Indian students enrolment | Total enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Childress Elementary School | 0.2 | 451 |
| Childress High School | 0 | 294 |
| Childress Junior High School | 0.7 | 269 |
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