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Brown County schools enrolled 394 students who were identified as being gifted and talented during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

This is a 2.3% increase over the previous school year.

Of the 6,262 students enrolled in Brown County schools, 6.3% of them were considered to be gifted and talented.

Brown County enrolled the 79th 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
Bangs High School	17	247
Bangs Middle School	11	197
Blanket School	10	142
Brookesmith School	2	144
Brownwood Accelerated High School	0	15
Brownwood Middle School	59	485
Coggin Intermediate School	37	708
Davinci	0	6
Early Elementary School	12	255
Early High School	23	366
Early Middle School	20	272
Early Primary School	8	262
East Elementary School	18	316
J. B. Stephens Elementary School	9	418
May Elementary School	12	120
May High School	7	134
Northwest Elementary School	13	460
Plato	0	5
Quest	0	26
Woodland Heights Elementary School	35	488
Zephyr School	19	227