Public Schools in Texas
9,061 schools · 1,201 districts · 5,519,599 students
Largest Schools in Texas
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
Texas Virtual Academy at Hallsville
Hallsville
Texas Connections Academy at Houston
Houston
Lone Star Online Academy
Roscoe
Allen H S
Allen
Conroe H S
Conroe
North Shore Senior High
Houston
Duncanville H S
Duncanville
The Woodlands H S
The Woodlands
Lewisville H S
Lewisville
Skyline H S
Dallas
Frequently Asked Questions
Texas has 9,061 public schools across 1,201 districts, serving 5,519,599 students.
The largest school in Texas is Texas Virtual Academy at Hallsville with 14,830 students. Texas has 9,061 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 44%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
The Texas record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how Texas sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for Texas is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.