Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath (2024) | onestarfoundation.org
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath (2024) | onestarfoundation.org
Data showed that Ward County welcomed 2,310 students during the 2021-22 school year. Among them, white comprised 31.8% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.
Among the seven schools in Ward County, Tatom Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2021-22 school year, with a total of 180 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 white students enrolment | Total enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Monahans High School | 29 | 600 |
| Tatom Elementary School | 36.9 | 488 |
| Sudderth Elementary School | 30.2 | 470 |
| Walker Junior High School | 31.5 | 355 |
| George Cullender Kind | 34.2 | 228 |
| Grandfalls-Royalty School | 29.1 | 148 |
| Monahans Education Center | 28.6 | 21 |
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