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Burkburnett, Texas - 7 schools
An equity score of 42/100 ranks Burkburnett Isd #656 of 1044 districts in Texas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,081 per pupil, Burkburnett Isd ranks #960 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
3,211
Total Enrollment
7
Schools
$11,081
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Burkburnett Isd operates 7 public schools serving 3,211 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 combined, 2 high, 1 middle, 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 Wichita County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,081 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 31.4% local, 48.9% state, and 19.7% 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 42/100, ranked #656 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 1 of 7 schools offering Advanced Placement (12 AP courses district-wide), a 520:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 20.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 56.2% White, 23.4% Hispanic or Latino, 12.9% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is John G Tower El, with a diversity index of 64.9/100.
Its largest campus is Burkburnett H S, enrolling 901 students (28% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Wichita Co Jjaep, at 2 students, a 451x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Burkburnett H S accounts for 28.0% of all Burkburnett Isd student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Burkburnett 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.
Burkburnett Isd school enrollment varies 451× across entities
Burkburnett Isd school enrollment ranges from 2 students (lowest) to 901 students (highest), a spread of 899 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.
Burkburnett Isd student-counselor ratio is 520:1 — 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.
Burkburnett Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 20.9% — 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 Burkburnett Isd is typically wider than the Burkburnett Isd-aggregate figure suggests.