East Central Texas News

Navarro County schools enrolled 900 students who were identified as being gifted and talented during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

This is a 6.4% increase over the previous school year.

Of the 10,254 students enrolled in Navarro County schools, 8.8% of them were considered to be gifted and talented.

Navarro County enrolled the 47th highest number of gifted and talented 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 gifted and talented students	Total Number of students
Blooming Grove Elementary School	5	428
Blooming Grove High School	24	267
Blooming Grove Junior High School	13	225
Bowie Elementary School	61	534
Carroll Elementary School	14	502
Collins Intermediate School	143	868
Corsicana High School	152	1,805
Corsicana Middle School	125	928
Dawson Elementary School	12	281
Dawson High School	28	265
Fannin Elementary School	33	399
Frost High School	17	240
Jose Antonio Navarro Elementary School	33	621
Kerens School	29	570
Mildred Elementary School	25	380
Mildred High School	33	468
Rice Elementary School	13	407
Rice High School	44	307
Rice Intermediate/Middle School	38	322
Sam Houston Elementary School	52	439