Lubbock Times

There were 75 Pacific Islander students enrolled in Lubbock County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 16.7% less than the previous year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

Data showed that Lubbock County welcomed 52,144 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Pacific Islander students comprised 0.1% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 94 schools in Lubbock County, Waters Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Pacific Islander students in the 2022-23 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.

Underfunding is a frequently cited challenge facing the state's school districts. Per-pupil funding has not increased since 2019, despite inflation rates rising by more than 20% since then.

“As a result, many districts in our very own Central Texas region are being forced to cut back on essential programs, services, consider school closures, and adopt deficit budgets just to provide students with the education that they deserve,” Hutto ISD Trustee James Matlock said.

School name	% of Pacific Islander students enrolment	Total enrollment
Frenship High School	0.1	3,247
Lubbock-Cooper High School	0	2,117
Monterey High School	0.2	2,114
Coronado High School	0.1	1,960
Lubbock High School	0.1	1,839
Lubbock-Cooper Bush Middle School	0.1	971
Lubbock-Cooper Middle School	0	914
Estacado High School	0	897
Terra Vista Middle School	0	891
Bennett Elementary School	0	876
Lubbock-Cooper Central Elementary School	0.2	849
Upland Heights Elementary School	0	840
Hutchinson Middle School	0	833
Frenship Middle School	0	833
Irons Middle School	0.1	815
Evans Middle School	0.3	799
Heritage Middle School	0	766
Lubbock-Cooper East Elementary School	0.3	759
Lubbock-Cooper South Elementary School	0.1	739
North Ridge Elementary School	0	738
Texas Tech University K-12	0.3	735
Willow Bend Elementary School	0	730
Lubbock-Cooper North Elementary School	0	721
Miller Elementary School	0.2	643
Centennial Elementary School	0.2	618
Oak Ridge Elementary School	0.3	610
Westwind Elementary School	0.2	601
Lubbock-Cooper West Elementary School	0	596
Carmona-Harrison Elementary School	0	593
Crestview Elementary School	0	583
Hardwick Elementary School	0.7	574
Harmony Science Academy - Lubbock	0	567
Smith Elementary School	0.2	561
Wilson Elementary School	0.2	555
Atkins Middle School	0	542
Shallowater High School	0	542
Roosevelt Elementary School	0.2	536
McWhorter Elementary School	0.6	535
Roberts Elementary School	0	535
Bayless Elementary School	0.4	518
Mackenzie Middle School	0	515
Waters Elementary School	1.2	507
Shallowater Middle School	0.2	500
Whiteside Elementary School	0.4	490
Cavazos Middle School	0.4	479
Talkington School for Young Women Leaders	0.2	469
Ramirez Elementary School	0.6	467
Commander William C. McCool Academy	0.2	450
Legacy Elementary School	0	450
Alderson Elementary School	0	439
Cathelene Thomas Elementary School	0	439
Dunbar College Preparatory Academy	0	430
Honey Elementary School	0.2	420
Idalou Elementary School	0	410
Harwell Elementary School	0	410
Stewart Elementary School	0	405
Ervin Elementary School	0	405
Parsons Elementary School	0.3	396
Shallowater Intermediate School	0.5	387
Wester Elementary School	1.1	371
Slaton High School	0	362
Slaton Middle School	0.6	355
Roosevelt High School	0	350
Bean Elementary School	0	349
Shallowater Elementary School	0.6	330
Maedgen Elementary School	0.3	323
Wheelock Elementary School	0	323
Rush Elementary School	0	309
Williams Elementary School	0.7	307
Idalou Middle School	0	300
Rise Academy	0	297
Roosevelt Junior High School	0.3	289
Idalou High School	0	278
Overton Elementary School	0	277
New Deal Elementary School	0	275
Wolffarth Elementary School	0.4	265
Slaton Junior High School	0	264
Hodges Elementary School	0	255
New Deal High School	0.4	244
Brown Elementary School	0	238
New Deal Middle School	0	235
Triumph Public High Schools-Lubbock	0	226
Stephen F. Austin Primary School	0	199
Premier High School of Lubbock	0	186
Elementary for Education Innovation	1.7	175
Priority Intervention Academy	0	152
Richard Milburn Academy Lubbock	0	142
Matthews Academy	0	103
Lubbock-Cooper New Hope Academy	0	83
Lubbock County Juvenile Justice Center	0	57
Homebound	0	45
Lubbock County JJAEP	0	13
Slaton ISD DAEP	0	4
New Deal DAEP	0	3