Diversity

In the Fort Bend Independent School District, recognizing and appreciating cultural differences is a way of life. All students and personnel are valued members of our unique family, each playing a significant role in our success. While the world around us may often face stereotyping, FBISD encourages staff and students to embrace that which makes us different.

By supporting an environment that facilitates and encourages safe and open dialogue on diversity, and by empowering our students to embrace their diversity, we are striving to ensure that our students will be sincerely open and equipped to work and live in a diverse world.

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

  • 11.25% Asian/Pacific Islander
  • 28.56% Black
  • 14.42% Hispanic
  • 45.71% White
  • 0.06% Native American

2010

  • 22.57% Asian/Pacific Islander
  • 30.95% Black
  • 24.48% Hispanic
  • 22.57% White
  • 0.24% 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
HungarianIbo/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
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