Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
GovernmentThe Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts created educationfreedom.texas.gov to administer and track the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) program, established by the Texas Legislature through Senate Bill 2 in 2025. The program awarded over $1 billion in education funding in its first year, making it the largest day-one school choice initiative in the nation. The Comptroller publishes detailed breakdowns of TEFA applications and awards, including demographic data on applicants by income level, race/ethnicity, grade level, and prior school enrollment, as well as geographic distributions across school districts and regional education service centers. The data also covers special education status, application processing timelines, participating schools and vendors, and eligibility determinations.
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TEFA Participating Schools & Vendors
Looking for private schools or tutoring services your child could attend under Texas's new school choice program? This is the official list of every participating vendor. It tells you where they're located, what grades they serve, what type of education or services they offer (school, tutoring, enrichment, therapy), and their contact details. If you're considering TEFA for your student, you'd use this to see what options exist in your area.
TEFA Applications
During the first two months of 2026, Texas launched a school voucher program and accepted applications. This is the complete record of who applied, broken down in every way you might want to look at it. You can see how many applications came from each school district, which grade levels had the most interest, whether applications skewed toward certain racial or ethnic groups, how household income levels correlated with applications, and even a day-by-day count of submissions as the deadline approached. It's raw data from the official system, plus some information pulled from the state's public summary.
TEFA Applications by School District
Here's where Texas families are using the state's new school choice program. When TEFA opened for applications in early 2026, students applied through their home school districts. This data shows how many applications each district received, revealing which parts of Texas are most interested in using education savings accounts. Rural and urban areas responded very differently, and you can see the exact demand in each district (except the smallest ones, which are kept private to protect students).
TEFA Participants by Campus
Which Texas schools have students using the new state voucher program, and how many at each one. The program (TEFA) lets families use state education funding to pay for private school, homeschool, or tutoring instead of public school. This shows where those students ended up in the first year. Only schools with at least 30 participating students are listed, so you won't see the smallest handful.
TEFA Awards by School District
Texas passed a school-voucher program called TEFA that gives money to students' families to use at private schools or for education services. This data shows how many students got approved for that money in each school district, tracked at the moment the program hit 100,000 awards. Not every awarded student actually uses the money right away, so this is a broader count than the number actively using accounts. You're looking at 347 districts large enough to include without risking privacy, with over 102,000 students approved and about 145,000 more on a waitlist.
TEFA Participants by School District
Texas created a school voucher program called TEFA in 2025. This dataset shows how many students using TEFA come from each school district. The data is from the first year of the program (2026-27). You can see which districts have participating students, but smaller districts with fewer than 30 students are left out to keep student information private.