Literacy Facts
- More than 40 million Americans are considered functionally illiterate -- without the ability to read, write and compute to fulfull daily tasks.
- One in five Americans can not read at the fifth grade level.
- The literacy rate in Texas ranks 47th in the United States.
- 28% of adults in Texas scored in the lowest level of literacy on the Texas Adult Literacy Survey.
- 31% of adults in Hunt County do not have high school diplomas or the equivalent. One third of these has less than a ninth grade education.
- On the average, illiterate adults earn 42% less than high school graduates.
