Diversity... What Makes Us Different,
Makes Us Fort Bend ISD


One Family…Many Faces

Fort Bend ISD is one of the most culturally diverse school districts in the state of Texas, and we consider that to be a strength! Here are some statistics that illustrate the changing face of diversity in Fort Bend ISD.


1992

2010

11.25% Asian/Pacific Islander

21.99% Asian/Pacific Islander

28.56% Black

31.36% Black

14.42% Hispanic

24.07% Hispanic

45.71% White

22.38% White

0.06% Native American

0.20% Native American

Fort Bend ISD students speak more than 90 languages and dialects, including:

Afrikaans (Taal)

Akan (Fante, Asante)

Albanian, Gheg

Albanian, Tosk (Albania)

Amharic

Arabic

Armenian

Assyrian (Syriac, Aramaic)

Bengali

Bosnian

Bulgarian

Burmese

Cambodian (Khmer)

Cantonese (Chinese)

Cebuano (Visayan)

Choachowl Teochiu (Chinese)

Croation

Czech

Dari

Dutch/Flemish

Ekif

English

Farsi

Filipino

Finnish

French

Fukien/Hokkien (Chinese)

German

Greek

Gujarati

Guy anise

Haitian-Creole

Hakka (Chinese)

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Ibo/Igbo

Ilonggo (Hiligaynon)

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese

Kache (Kaje, Jju)

Kannada (Kanarese)

Kashmiri

Konkani

Korean

Krio

Kurdish

Kwa

Laotian (Lao)

Latvian

Luganda

Malay

Malayalam

Maltese

Mandarin (Chinese)

Mande

Marathi

Menominee

Nepali

Norwegian

Oriya

Pampangan

Panjabi (Punjabi)

Pashto (Puchto)

Philipino (Tagulog)

Polish

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbian

Shanghai (Chinese)

Shona

Sindhi

Somali

Sotho

Spanish

Swahili

Swedish

Taiwanese/Formosan/Min Nan

Tamil

Teluga (Telegu)

Thai

Tigrinya

Tiwa

Tuluau

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu

Vietnamese

Welsh

Yoruba

Yombe

Fort Bend Independent School District
16431 Lexington Blvd
Sugar Land, Texas 77479
281-634-1000