Largest Schools in Texas
Texas has 9,061 public schools across 1,201 districts with a total enrollment of 5,519,599 students. The largest school is Texas Virtual Academy at Hallsville in Hallsville.
Largest Schools in Texas
| # | School | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas Virtual Academy at Hallsville | Hallsville | 14,830 |
| 2 | Texas Connections Academy at Houston | Houston | 8,967 |
| 3 | Lone Star Online Academy | Roscoe | 5,581 |
| 4 | Allen H S | Allen | 5,317 |
| 5 | Conroe H S | Conroe | 4,915 |
| 6 | North Shore Senior High | Houston | 4,569 |
| 7 | Duncanville H S | Duncanville | 4,501 |
| 8 | The Woodlands H S | The Woodlands | 4,361 |
| 9 | Lewisville H S | Lewisville | 4,240 |
| 10 | Skyline H S | Dallas | 4,166 |
Largest Districts in Texas
| # | District | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Houston Isd | 189,934 |
| 2 | Dallas Isd | 141,169 |
| 3 | Cypress-Fairbanks Isd | 118,010 |
| 4 | Northside Isd | 102,962 |
| 5 | Katy Isd | 92,667 |
| 6 | Fort Bend Isd | 79,660 |
| 7 | Idea Public Schools | 74,217 |
| 8 | Austin Isd | 73,384 |
| 9 | Fort Worth Isd | 72,783 |
| 10 | Conroe Isd | 70,783 |
School data for Texas is sourced from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results.
Frequently Asked Questions
The largest public school in Texas by enrollment is Texas Virtual Academy at Hallsville in Hallsville with 14,830 students.
Texas has 9,061 public schools across 1,201 school districts, with a total enrollment of 5,519,599 students.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. This includes enrollment, student-teacher ratios, proficiency rates, and graduation rates.
School data includes enrollment, student-teacher ratios, proficiency rates, and graduation rates from NCES and EDFacts.
The this entity category groups every U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment entity sharing this attribute. The list above is the data; the paragraphs below explain what the grouping means against the broader NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts distribution and how to read the relative rankings within the category.
For readers using this category as a starting point, the per-entity detail pages linked from the table above carry the underlying NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts data in full. The category-level view is the filter; the per-entity pages are the actual answer.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.