Dallas City Wire

Kaufman County schools enrolled 17,292 students who identified as being at risk during the 2021-22 school year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

This is a 17.1% increase over the previous school year.

Of the 34,463 students enrolled in Kaufman County schools, 50.2% of them are considered to be at risk.

Kaufman County had the 28th 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
North Forney High School	1,158	2,291
Forney High School	743	2,008
Crandall High School	724	1,529
Terrell High School	906	1,401
Kaufman High School	764	1,210
Herman Furlough Junior Middle School	775	1,112
Mabank High School	485	1,019
Norman Junior High School	593	978
Jackson Middle School	584	914
Rhodes Intermediate School	537	905
Warren Middle School	323	859
Crandall Middle School	447	855
Griffin Elementary School	393	830
Rhea Intermediate School	275	763
Henderson Elementary School	290	762
Criswell Elementary School	499	754
Lewis Elementary School	401	749
Noble Reed	353	688
Gilbert Willie Senior Elementary School	419	687
Crosby Elementary School	454	681
W. A. Martin Elementary School	433	662
J. W. Long Elementary School	471	662
Central Elementary School	253	661
Johnson Elementary School	253	611
Blackburn Elementary School	302	603
Brown Middle School	362	583
Mabank Junior High School	289	581
Nola Kathryn Wilson Elementary School	297	575
Dr. Bruce Wood Elementary School	247	565
Hollis T. Dietz Elementary School	262	563
Mabank Intermediate School	293	549
Barbara Walker Elementary School	241	534
Smith Intermediate School	272	521
Claybon Elementary School	162	515
Lucille Nash Elementary School	136	510
Helen Edward Early Childhood Center	182	468
J. R. Phillips Elementary School	211	462
J. W. Monday Elementary School	167	452
Kemp High School	196	451
Kemp Primary School	302	443
Scurry-Rosser Middle School	199	434
Kemp Junior High School	97	417
Kemp Intermediate School	91	373
Scurry-Rosser High School	86	358
Scurry-Rosser Elementary School	114	293
W. H. Burnett Elementary School	89	292
Global Leadership Academy	47	212
Crandall Compass Academy	45	45
Tisd Child & Adolescent School	29	29
Gary W. Campbell High School	23	23
Terrell Alternative Education Center/Phoenix School	12	13
Kemp Alternative	6	8