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Bastrop, Texas - 14 schools
An equity score of 25/100 ranks Bastrop Isd #914 of 1044 districts in Texas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $10,355 per pupil, Bastrop Isd ranks #1068 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
12,506
Total Enrollment
14
Schools
$10,355
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Bastrop Isd operates 14 public schools serving 12,506 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 6 combined, 4 high, 2 middle, 2 elementary schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Bastrop County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,355 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 45.7% local, 39.7% state, and 14.6% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 25/100, ranked #914 of 1044 in Texas against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 3 of 14 schools offering Advanced Placement (39 AP courses district-wide), a 643.9:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 36.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 76.2% Hispanic or Latino, 18.1% White, 2.5% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Mina El, with a diversity index of 60.8/100.
Its largest campus is Cedar Creek H S, enrolling 2,144 students (18% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Genesis H S, at 185 students, a 12x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Cedar Creek H S accounts for 17.1% of all Bastrop Isd student enrollment
That concentration means Bastrop Isd-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Bastrop Isd school enrollment varies 12× across entities
Bastrop Isd school enrollment ranges from 185 students (lowest) to 2,144 students (highest), a spread of 1,959 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Bastrop Isd has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 71.5% 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). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. 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.
Bastrop Isd student-counselor ratio is 644:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Bastrop Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 36.4% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.