Half of all Texas school districts have no mental health services
8/19/2022
I analyzed Texas Education Agency staffing data and telehealth rosters to reveal that half the state’s school districts — and more than 500,000 students — have no access to a school psychologist.
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Partnering with CBS News Texas for this story, I merged TEA staffing files with student-enrollment counts, calculated the psychologist-to-pupil ratio for all 1,200+ Texas school districts, and overlaid a fresh scrape of the state’s TCHATT telehealth roster to map where kids can — or can’t — see a mental-health professional at school.
The numbers were stark: 593 districts have no psychologist at all, only 39 meet the 1:700 best-practice ratio, and more than 800 aren’t even plugged into the state’s tele-therapy safety net.
Tools and techniques used
Python
Data analysis and web scraping programming language