Longview Times

Upshur County schools enrolled 3,578 students who identified as being at risk during the 2021-22 school year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

This is an 11.7% increase over the previous school year.

Of the 7,942 students enrolled in Upshur County schools, 45.1% of them are considered to be at risk.

Upshur County had the 76th highest number of at-risk students among Texas counties.

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.

More than 5.4 million students are enrolled in public schools across Texas. Nearly one million of them live in rural areas where options for local public schools are few and far between.

School	Number of at-risk students	Total Number of students
Gilmer Elementary School	579	1,116
Gilmer High School	378	785
Robert F. Hunt Elementary School	162	584
Gladewater High School	188	482
Ore City Elementary School	224	421
Bruce Junior High School	277	392
Gilmer Intermediate School	216	385
Union Grove Elementary School	194	378
New Diana High School	131	348
Harmony Elementary School	132	330
Big Sandy Elementary School	145	317
Harmony High School	111	291
New Diana Middle School	100	285
Ore City High School	138	247
Harmony Junior High School	94	242
Union Grove High School	61	212
Big Sandy High School	48	199
Ore City Middle School	108	193
Harmony Intermediate School	58	174
Union Hill High School	64	161
Big Sandy Junior High School	57	143
Sharon A. Richardson Elementary School	48	123
Union Grove Junior High School	44	113
Azleway - Big Sandy	21	21