Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath (2024) | onestarfoundation.org
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath (2024) | onestarfoundation.org
Data showed that Zapata County welcomed 3,287 students during the 2021-22 school year. Among them, white comprised 0.5% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.
Among the six schools in Zapata County, Zapata High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2021-22 school year, with a total of six 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zapata High School | 0.6 | 987 |
| Zapata Middle School | 0.6 | 808 |
| Zapata North Elementary School | 0.6 | 534 |
| Zapata South Elementary School | 0.4 | 467 |
| Fidel and Andrea R. Villarreal Elementary School | 0.5 | 427 |
| Benavides Elementary School | 0 | 64 |
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