• Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas: Nearly 21 Percent of Texas’s High School Students Attend the Nation’s Lowest-Performing Schools

  • Nearly 21 Percent of Texas’s High School Students Attend the Nation’s Lowest-Performing Schools

  • In the nation’s lowest-performing high schools, sometimes known as “dropout factories,” graduation rates routinely fall below 60 percent. Over half of these schools have student bodies larger than one thousand, but others are small- or medium-sized schools.

  • According to data from Johns Hopkins University and calculations by the Alliance, more than 175 of the nation’s lowest-performing high schools are located in Texas, representing approximately 14 percent of Texas’s high schools and educating about 21 percent of its high school students.

  • The complete brief, which includes a table outlining the number of lowest-performing high schools and the percentages of students who attend them for each state, is available at http://www.all4ed.org/files/PrioritizingLowestPerformingSchools.pdf

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