At $11,053 per pupil, Brazos River Charter School ranks #1026 of 1207 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Brazos River Charter School operates 1 public schools serving 132 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 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 Somervell County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,053 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 1207 Texas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Texas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 4.0% local, 84.5% state, and 11.5% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 30.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 77.0% White, 18.0% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Brazos River Charter School, enrolling 61 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 50% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (132 to 66 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 9.3 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $1,459,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 58.5% went to instruction, 41.5% to support services, and 0% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Brazos River Charter School accounts for 46.2% of all Brazos River Charter School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Brazos River Charter School a distant remainder — means Brazos River Charter School-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates 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.
Brazos River Charter School student-counselor ratio is 31:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.