New data collected by the Texas Home School Coalition (THSC) indicates that nearly 50,000 Texas public school students withdraw to homeschool every year.
THSC announced that although its previous reporting indicated between 20,000 and 30,000 students per year had left public schools to homeschool instead, the data was faulty as it had been based on the Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) reports which “were only available for students between grades 7-12.”
According to the TEA, Texas had over 5.5 million students in public schools in the 2022-2023 school year.
The new data includes Texas public school students from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade, and prior reported upon, grades seven through 12.
As could be presumed due to its status as Texas’ largest county, Harris County ranks number one in the state with the highest number of withdrawals from public to homeschooling, according to THSC’s interactive map.
During the 2022-2023 school year in Harris County, 4,750 students withdrew to ...
