For This School Year
Texas Added 62,030 Public School Students
— Special-Ed Enrollment Nears 11 Percent
The official Texas public school enrollment for this school year is 5,493,940 students, a 62,030 student (1.14 percent) increase over the enrollment reported for 2018-19.
The statewide data is included in the 2019-20 TEA Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) standard report of enrollments for student programs and special student populations (see graphics).
The data is also reported for individual ISDs, charters, campuses, counties and education service center regions. Click here for the searchable database.
Special-Ed Growth
The closely-watched special-ed datapoint reflects that for this school year, the number of students in special-ed grew by 55,996 from last school year — and that students classified as special-ed now equal 10.7 percent of the state’s total enrollment.
- Note: The TEA in January 2018 began drafting a multi-year compliance plan addressing the findings in a critical federal education audit letter.
The letter concluded that TEA policies likely led to schools placing an arbitrary 8.5 percent cap on the number of students that qualified for special-ed, thus likely denying thousands of Texas students the special-ed services to which they may have been entitled.
The TEA maintains special-ed updates
here.
We’ll have summaries of other TEA PEIMS reports as they are released.