This document provides an overview and statistics about Central Texas in 2012. It summarizes that Central Texas is served by 35 school districts with 479 schools educating over 298,000 students. It also notes that the majority of employed workers in the Austin-Round Rock area hold low-wage occupations and that the fastest growing careers requiring 2-year degrees are in the medical fields. In addition, it states that 20 out of the 43 targeted high-growth occupations in Texas from 2008 to 2018 are in STEM fields.