2024-25 school year: 176,727 students enrolled in Houston Independent School District

Houston Independent School District enrolled 176,727 students in the 2024-25 school year, a 4% decrease from 184,109 the previous year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

Among the student body, 50.6% were boys and 49.4% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were Hispanic (108,987), representing 61.7% of the district’s total enrollment. Black students were the second-largest group, totaling 36,773 students (20.8%).

The grade level with the highest enrollment was ninth grade, with 14,337 students enrolled that year, accounting for 8.1% of the total student body.

The district covers 273 schools, and has a central office in Houston.

Texas has the nation’s second-largest K-12 public school system, serving about 5.5 million students with a student-to-teacher ratio of roughly 15:1.

About 42,103 teachers in Texas, or 12% of the state’s 352,234 teachers, did not hold an active teaching certificate during the 2024-25 school year, according to a report from the Texas Education Agency. The share of uncertified teachers has increased from 3.8% in the 2019-20 school year.

A 2026 study by WalletHub classified Texas as one of the least-educated states in the U.S., ranking it 41st out of 50 in educational quality and student outcomes.

Information in this article was obtained from the Texas Education Agency. The source data can be found here.