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Compare graduates, tracked college enrollment, and top destination institutions across the available 2019-2024 campus-level files.
Texas high-school outcomes
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Bars = graduates and enrolled counts · Lines = rates · Source: official state data
What this page is for
Texas is the best first non-California expansion because THECB publishes high-school-to-college destination files by campus, district, county, and destination institution. The data supports college-going and destination pages now, while acceptance-rate pages should come later from IPEDS, College Scorecard, and Common Data Set sources.
What the official data can answer
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board publishes a long statewide summary from Fall 2000 through Fall 2024 and annual campus-level XLS files for recent cohorts. The interactive chart uses the annual campus files from Fall 2019 through Fall 2024, merging campus-code changes by high school, district, and county. The campus files report destination institutions, not admissions offers.
| Source | Use on the site |
|---|---|
| TXHigherEdData high-school graduates hub | Official entry point for Texas high-school graduates enrolled in higher education the following fall. |
| Fall 2024 statewide summary XLS | Statewide totals by destination and student ethnicity from Fall 2000 through Fall 2024. |
| Fall 2024 campus-level XLS | High-school, district, county, destination institution, and student-count rows for FY 2024 graduates. |
| Report Center data index | Official THECB index where the annual campus-level XLS files are listed by fall year. |
Texas statewide destination mix
Counts are from the Fall 2024 THECB statewide XLS. The enrollment rate uses the report denominator that excludes not-trackable records.
| Destination | Students | Share of all graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Public 4-year institution | 80,604 | 21.1% |
| Public 2-year institution | 74,736 | 19.6% |
| Independent university or college | 11,455 | 3.0% |
| Not trackable | 32,500 | 8.5% |
| Not found in Texas higher-ed records | 182,728 | 47.8% |
Top named Texas destinations in the campus file
This starter table aggregates named institutions in the Fall 2024 campus-level XLS and excludes "Other," "Not found," and "Not trackable" rows.
| Destination institution | Students |
|---|---|
| Texas A&M University | 6,639 |
| University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | 5,827 |
| Dallas College District | 5,405 |
| Texas State University | 5,362 |
| University of Texas at Austin | 4,950 |
| San Jacinto College | 4,607 |
| University of North Texas | 3,968 |
| University of Texas at San Antonio | 3,883 |
Starter high-school outcome examples
These are not acceptance rates. They show the share of a high school's graduates found in Texas higher-ed enrollment records, filtering to schools with at least 250 graduates.
| High school | District | Graduates | Tracked enrollment rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| John B Alexander H S | United ISD | 729 | 72.4% |
| O'Connor H S | Northside ISD | 619 | 69.5% |
| Sharyland H S | Sharyland ISD | 410 | 69.0% |
| John A Dubiski Career H S | Grand Prairie ISD | 335 | 66.3% |
| Veterans Memorial Early College H S | Brownsville ISD | 522 | 65.9% |
| Eagle Pass H S | Eagle Pass ISD | 544 | 65.6% |
What to build next
Texas high-school destination pages
Create one page per Texas high school showing graduate count, tracked college-going rate, top destination institutions, and district/county context.
Texas automatic admission explainer
Pair the destination data with Texas top-percent automatic-admission rules, but keep this as policy content with review dates.
Texas college profile pages
Use Scorecard/IPEDS/CDS for UT Austin, Texas A&M, Rice, Houston, UT Dallas, Texas Tech, UNT, and other major destinations.
Important caveats
- The THECB high-school destination files are enrollment records, not admit or application records.
- The state-level THECB summary runs back to Fall 2000, but the local high-school chart uses the annual campus-level files available for Fall 2019 through Fall 2024.
- "Not found" does not necessarily mean a graduate did not attend college; the report is scoped to the institutions covered by the source.
- The campus-level file is limited to high schools with more than 25 graduates and suppresses small destination counts into "Other" rows.
FAQ
Does Texas publish high-school college acceptance rates?
The useful public Texas source is mainly college destination data: where graduates enrolled after high school. Acceptance-rate pages should use college-level IPEDS, Scorecard, and Common Data Set sources rather than treating destination records as admissions offers.
What Texas content should be built first?
Build high-school destination pages first because the official file already has high school, district, county, destination institution, and student-count fields.