Hill Country Chronicle

Kinney County schools enrolled 26 students who were identified as being gifted and talented during the 2020-2021 school year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

This is a 36.6% decrease from the previous school year.

Of the 519 students enrolled in Kinney County schools, 5% of them were considered to be gifted and talented.

Kinney County enrolled the 34th lowest 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
Brackett High School	13	157
Brackett Junior High School	10	122
Jones Elementary/Intermediate School	3	240