District data: See demographics, salaries and more for Alvin, Friendswood, Pearland ISDs

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District data: See demographics, salaries and more for Alvin, Friendswood, Pearland ISDs

By Andy Yanez, Colleen Ferguson, Haley Morrison | 6:00 AM Aug 15, 2021 CDT

Enrollment is increasing at Alvin ISD, but it is falling and Pearland ISD and remaining stagnate at Friendswood ISD.

Teachers in all three districts make roughly the same starting salary, but Pearland ISD's superintendent makes 46% more than Friendswood ISD's superintendent.

Pearland and Friendswood area school districts vary in size and number of teachers. Substitute pay is about the same for all three districts.

Hispanic and Latino students makes up over 50% of students statewide. That is the largest demographic in Pearland and Alvin ISDs, but white students make up the majority in Friendswood ISD.

A native central New Yorker, Colleen worked as an editorial intern with the Cy-Fair and Lake Houston | Humble | Kingwood editions of Community Impact Newspaper before joining the Bay Area team in 2020. She covers public education, higher education, business and development news in southeast Houston. Colleen graduated in 2019 from Syracuse University and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she worked for the university's independent student newspaper The Daily Orange. Her degrees are in journalism and Spanish language and culture. When not chasing a story, Colleen can be found petting cats and dogs, listening to podcasts, swimming or watching true crime documentaries.

By Haley Morrison

Haley Morrison came to Community Impact Newspaper in 2017 after graduating from Baylor University. She was promoted to editor in February 2019. Haley primarily covers city government.

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District data: See demographics, salaries and more for Alvin, Friendswood, Pearland ISDs

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