NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools TX

Best-Resourced Schools in Big Spring, TX

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9 public K-12 schools in Big Spring from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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9
Schools
4,046
Students
39.1/100
Avg Resource Index
16:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Big Spring has more public-school enrollment than 45% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Big Spring sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Big Spring's 9 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Big Spring lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 95 to 982 students, a 10-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 55%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
42nd percentile
Teacher staffing
43rd percentile

Big Spring H S accounts for 24.3% of all Big Spring public-school enrollment

That concentration means Big Spring-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Big Spring school enrollment varies 10× across entities

Big Spring school enrollment ranges from 95 students (lowest) to 982 students (highest), a spread of 887 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Big Spring reports 67.1% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Big Spring student-teacher ratio is 16.0:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Big Spring is typically wider than the Big Spring-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Forsan El 55
2. Big Spring J H 45
3. Goliad El 43
4. Big Spring Int 42
5. Big Spring H S 36
6. Washington El 36
7. Marcy El 34
8. Moss El 34
9. Kentwood El 27

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Big Spring

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Forsan El 54.8/100
  2. 2 Big Spring J H 48.9/100
  3. 3 Big Spring H S 48.4/100
  4. 4 Big Spring Int 46.8/100
  5. 5 Washington El 46.3/100

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Which Big Spring school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Forsan El has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Big Spring schools in this federal-data comparison at 55/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Big Spring, TX? ▼

Big Spring has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,046 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.