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Dewitt County schools enrolled 2,076 students who identified as being at risk during the 2021-22 school year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

This is a 19.4% increase over the previous school year.

Of the 4,338 students enrolled in Dewitt County schools, 47.9% of them are considered to be at risk.

Dewitt County had the 109th 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
Cuero High School	308	630
Hunt Elementary School	232	512
Cuero Junior High School	268	478
Yoakum High School	228	470
Yoakum Junior High School	158	353
J. C. French Elementary School	163	308
Yoakum Intermediate School	113	264
Yorktown Elementary School	131	256
Yoakum Primary School	168	213
Yoakum Annex	74	207
Yorktown High School	81	154
Nordheim School	52	149
Meyersville Elementary School	23	145
Yorktown Junior High School	73	128
Westhoff Elementary School	4	71