El Paso Standard

There was one American Indian student enrolled in Burnham Wood Charter School District schools in the 2022-23 school year, 66.7% less than the previous year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

Data showed that Burnham Wood Charter School District schools welcomed 1,359 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, American Indian students comprised 0.1% of the student body to be one of the least represented ethnicities in the district.

Burnham Wood Charter School District roughly covers schools within El Paso County and has a main office in El Paso.

Howard Burnham Elementary School was the only school in the district which enrolled American Indian students, welcoming one student in the 2022-23 school year.

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.

Year	Total District Enrollment	Total of American Indian Students	American Indian students %
2022-23	1,359	1	0.1%
2021-22	1,376	3	0.2%
2020-21	1,252	3	0.2%
2019-20	1,079	3	0.3%