NUMBER AND AMOUNT OF SCHOLARSHIPS GIVEN IN 2012:

Information obtained through an Open Records Request of Katy ISD by Cynthia Blackman in May 2012

                           CRHS              KHS            MCHS         THS         MRHS          SLHS

# of Graduates                    693                       581                   565                633                645                  836

 # Receiving

Scholarships                       151                       135                      68                186                  86                  107  

% Receiving

Scholarships                     22%                   23.2%               38..4%*              29%              13%                 13%  

Academic

Accepted$             $4,785,397           $2,725,646         $1,652,529     $2,943,865     $1,831,124     $2,648,641 

Athletic

Accepted$             $1,109,417             $975,209            $474,862        $531,472        $828,200        $780,200

Total

Accepted$         $5,894,814           $3,700,855          $2,127,391     $3,275,337      $2,659,324      $3,428,841

*I think someone at the Ad Building can't figure percentages.  Probably should be 12%.

If things are as they have always been, a great portion of this scholarship money emerges when someone gets accepted to one of the military academies or gets an ROTC or an NROTC "scholarship."  They include room and board, tuition and most necessities.  Of course the student "pays" for this free trip to college by serving his country for at least five years and maybe more.  So I'm not sure I would call those dollars "scholarships."  It is an arbitrary designation by the school district. 

A scholarship exists when funds/money is given to a student for tuition, room and board and his personal use while attending college, and there are no strings attached as regards paying it back at a later time.  That's an important fact to realize when one is analyzing supposed scholarships.