Texas State Board Of Education Chair Keven Ellis (2024) | twitter.com/KevenEllisDC
Texas State Board Of Education Chair Keven Ellis (2024) | twitter.com/KevenEllisDC
Data showed that Amigos Por Vida-Friends for Life Public Charter School District welcomed 567 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, African American students comprised 0.9% of the student body to be one of the least represented ethnicities in the district.
Amigos Por Vida-Friends for Life Public Charter School District roughly covers schools within Harris County and has a main office in Houston.
Amigos Por Vida-Friends for Life Charter School was the only school in the district which enrolled African American students, welcoming five students in the 2022-23 school year.
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.
| Year | Total District Enrollment | Total of African American Students | African American students % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 567 | 5 | 0.9% |
| 2021-22 | 560 | 4 | 0.7% |
| 2020-21 | 502 | 3 | 0.6% |
| 2019-20 | 508 | 3 | 0.6% |
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