Cooke County schools enrollment of gifted and talented students is 343 students in the 2021-2022 school year

By Grayson Times

Jul 7, 2023

Cooke County schools enrolled 343 students who were identified as being gifted and talented during the 2021-2022 school year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

This is a 1.2% increase over the previous school year.

Of the 6,615 students enrolled in Cooke County schools, 5.2% of them were considered to be gifted and talented.

Cooke County enrolled the 90th 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.

Gifted & Talented Students in Cooke County Schools in 2021-2022 school year

School	Number of gifted and talented students	Total Number of students
Callisburg Elementary School	17	543
Callisburg High School	19	342
Edison Elementary School	1	712
Era School	37	495
Gainesville High School	57	863
Gainesville Intermediate School	34	441
Gainesville Junior High School	31	444
Lindsay Elementary School	18	258
Lindsay High School	20	232
Muenster Elementary School	7	300
Muenster High School	9	238
Sivells Bend Elementary School	5	63
Valley View Elementary School	12	376
Valley View High School	21	273
Valley View Middle School	20	294
W. E. Chalmers Elementary School	35	685
Walnut Bend Elementary School	0	56