Number of Bands in Texas and Band Members in Texas?

[kempej01]

I have been wondering:

 

Does anyone know how many bands (concert, marching, community, college, etc) are in Texas?

 

Does anyone know how many musicians are involved?

 

Just curious.

 

Joe

[Xenon]

Well, there's potentially one high school band program for every high school in Texas.

 

According to the UIL Alignments, there are the following numbers of high schools in each classification:

 

1A - not quite sure but at least 380

2A - 225

3A - 180

4A - 243

5A - 245

 

Total = at least 1,273

 

And this doesn't include private schools (except the very few that choose to compete in UIL as 5A).

 

 

As for total numbers, I don't have any official numbers, but we can make a real quick estimate:

 

Assumptions:

1A Average Size = 120

2A Average Size = 300

3A Average Size = 700

4A Average Size = 1500

5A Average Size = 2600

 

That would give you approximately (very rough estimate based on assumptions): ~1,240,600 Texas High School Students

 

Assume on average 12% band membership (no real idea what this number should be but I know that 20% is high): ~150,000 High School Band Members

[takigan]

There's something like 100 or 110 universities in Texas, 30 or 40-something have marching bands, though there are a lot more with some kind of band or music program. There's somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 community colleges in Texas, less than half have band programs (roughly a dozen or so have marching bands).

 

Giving an exact or even rough number of participants in the college band activity is really tough though.