Hill Country Chronicle

Kerr County schools enrolled 540 students who were identified as being gifted and talented during the 2021-2022 school year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

This is a 7.4% increase over the previous school year.

Of the 6,867 students enrolled in Kerr County schools, 7.9% of them were considered to be gifted and talented.

Kerr County enrolled the 76th 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
Center Point Elementary	8	258
Center Point High School	10	162
Center Point Middle	11	115
Daniels Elementary School	28	523
Divide Elementary School	0	32
Early Childhood Center	0	188
Fred High Tally Elementary School	52	555
Hill Country High School	0	31
Hill Country Youth Ranch	0	86
Hunt School	18	209
Ingram Elementary School	31	537
Ingram Middle School	31	269
Ingram Tom Moore High School	27	367
Nimitz Elementary School	48	522
Pathways 3H Campus	0	18
Peterson Middle School	147	1,095
Starkey Elementary School	34	451
Tivy High School	95	1,449