TX college outcomes

Texas college outcomes by high school

Search official Texas high-school graduate records to see college-going trends, destination institutions, and the share of graduates found in covered Texas higher-ed enrollment data.

382,023Texas graduates
166,795Texas higher-ed enrollments
47.7%Trackable enrollment rate
1,629High schools in campus file

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Start with a Texas high school

Compare graduates, tracked college enrollment, and top destination institutions across the available 2019-2024 campus-level files, then open the school's complete indexable profile.

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 first non-California expansion because THECB publishes high-school-to-college destination files by campus, district, county, and destination institution. You can now browse one indexable page per Texas high school and compare reported UT Austin feeder enrollment without mislabeling those outcomes as acceptance rates.

What the official data can answer

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board publishes a long statewide summary from Fall 2000 through Fall 2024, annual campus destination files, and separate first-year GPA files. The site joins the 2019–2024 files on stable nine-digit campus codes and retains all published destination rows plus six-digit FICE codes. The files report enrollment outcomes, not admissions offers.

SourceUse on the site
TXHigherEdData high-school graduates hubOfficial entry point for Texas high-school graduates enrolled in higher education the following fall.
Fall 2024 statewide summary XLSStatewide totals by destination and student ethnicity from Fall 2000 through Fall 2024.
Fall 2024 campus-level XLSHigh-school, district, county, destination institution, and student-count rows for FY 2024 graduates.
Report Center data indexOfficial THECB index where the annual campus-level XLS files are listed by fall year.
High-school graduates GPA in higher educationOfficial first-year GPA bands and public four-year/two-year sector counts by Texas high school.

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.

DestinationStudentsShare of all graduates
Public 4-year institution80,60421.1%
Public 2-year institution74,73619.6%
Independent university or college11,4553.0%
Not trackable32,5008.5%
Not found in Texas higher-ed records182,72847.8%

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 institutionStudents
Texas A&M University6,639
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley5,827
Dallas College District5,405
Texas State University5,362
University of Texas at Austin4,950
San Jacinto College4,607
University of North Texas3,968
University of Texas at San Antonio3,883

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 schoolDistrictGraduatesTracked enrollment rate
John B Alexander H SUnited ISD72972.4%
O'Connor H SNorthside ISD61969.5%
Sharyland H SSharyland ISD41069.0%
John A Dubiski Career H SGrand Prairie ISD33566.3%
Veterans Memorial Early College H SBrownsville ISD52265.9%
Eagle Pass H SEagle Pass ISD54465.6%

Explore Texas data pages

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Texas high-school destination pages

Browse one page per Texas high school with complete destinations, college-going trends, UT Austin enrollment, sector mix, and GPA bands.

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UT Austin feeder schools

Compare 2019–2024 reported UT Austin enrollment, leading high schools, graduate shares, and county patterns.

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Texas automatic admission explainer

Pair the destination data with Texas top-percent automatic-admission rules and explicit policy review dates.

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.
  • The GPA report uses activity across the academic year and may not match the fall-only enrollment counts; GPA bands are suppressed for public sectors with fewer than five students.

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?

The high-school destination pages and UT Austin feeder page are live. The next useful layer is policy-aware Texas college profiles using admissions sources that are distinct from the THECB enrollment outcomes.