Laredo Times

Zapata County schools enrolled 239 students who were identified as being gifted and talented during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

This is a 2.1% increase over the previous school year.

Of the 3,376 students enrolled in Zapata County schools, 7.1% of them were considered to be gifted and talented.

Zapata County enrolled the 107th highest number of gifted and talented 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 gifted and talented students	Total Number of students
Benavides Elementary School	6	61
Fidel and Andrea R. Villarreal Elementary School	20	449
Zapata High School	82	1,034
Zapata Middle School	80	784
Zapata North Elementary School	20	581
Zapata South Elementary School	31	467