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Brookesmith, Texas - 6 schools
At $18,393 per pupil, Brookesmith Isd ranks #97 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
188
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$18,393
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Brookesmith Isd operates 6 public schools serving 188 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 combined, 1 high, 1 elementary 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 Brown County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,393 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 121 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Texas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 36.9% local, 53.4% state, and 9.7% 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 154.4:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 24.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 38.3% White, 30.7% Hispanic or Latino, 23.2% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Brookesmith Plato, with a diversity index of 77.8/100.
Its largest campus is Brookesmith School, enrolling 139 students (81% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Brookesmith Apollo, at 2 students, a 70x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Brookesmith School accounts for 73.9% of all Brookesmith Isd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Brookesmith Isd a distant remainder — means Brookesmith 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.
Brookesmith Isd school enrollment varies 70× across entities
Brookesmith Isd school enrollment ranges from 2 students (lowest) to 139 students (highest), a spread of 137 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.
Brookesmith Isd student-counselor ratio is 154:1 — 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.
Brookesmith Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 24.0% — 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 Brookesmith Isd is typically wider than the Brookesmith Isd-aggregate figure suggests.