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Burnet, Texas - 6 schools
An equity score of 30/100 ranks Burnet Cisd #840 of 1044 districts in Texas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,488 per pupil, Burnet Cisd ranks #882 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
3,304
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$11,488
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Burnet Cisd operates 6 public schools serving 3,304 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 high, 2 combined, 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 Burnet County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,488 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 79.0% local, 9.2% state, and 11.8% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 30/100, ranked #840 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 6 schools offering Advanced Placement (11 AP courses district-wide), a 379.1:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 27.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 62.6% White, 33.4% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Bertram El, with a diversity index of 54.8/100.
Its largest campus is Burnet H S, enrolling 946 students (29% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Quest H S, at 35 students, a 27x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Burnet H S accounts for 28.6% of all Burnet Cisd student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Burnet Cisd-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.
Burnet Cisd school enrollment varies 27× across entities
Burnet Cisd school enrollment ranges from 35 students (lowest) to 946 students (highest), a spread of 911 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Burnet Cisd has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 58.4% 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.
Burnet Cisd student-counselor ratio is 379:1 — 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.
Burnet Cisd chronic absenteeism rate is 27.2% — 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 Burnet Cisd is typically wider than the Burnet Cisd-aggregate figure suggests.