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Alba, Texas - 3 schools
An equity score of 59/100 ranks Alba-Golden Isd #373 of 1044 districts in Texas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,797 per pupil, Alba-Golden Isd ranks #625 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
823
Total Enrollment
3
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$12,797
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Alba-Golden Isd operates 3 public schools serving 823 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Wood County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,797 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Texas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 32.9% local, 51.9% state, and 15.2% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 59/100, ranked #373 of 1044 in Texas against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 417.7:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 18.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 73.2% White, 24.8% Hispanic or Latino, 0.2% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Alter School, with a diversity index of 50.0/100.
Its largest campus is Alba-Golden H S, enrolling 433 students (53% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Alter School, at 2 students, a 217x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Alba-Golden H S accounts for 52.6% of all Alba-Golden Isd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Alba-Golden Isd a distant remainder — means Alba-Golden Isd-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Alba-Golden Isd school enrollment varies 217× across entities
Alba-Golden Isd school enrollment ranges from 2 students (lowest) to 433 students (highest), a spread of 431 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Alba-Golden Isd has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 52.1% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Alba-Golden Isd student-counselor ratio is 418:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Alba-Golden Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 18.4% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Alba-Golden Isd is typically wider than the Alba-Golden Isd-aggregate figure suggests.