At $24,270 per pupil, Cotton Center Isd ranks #35 of 1207 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Cotton Center Isd operates 1 public schools serving 100 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 Hale County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $24,270 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 121 of 1207 Texas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Texas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 15.5% local, 71.7% state, and 12.8% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 11.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 52.0% Hispanic or Latino, 42.0% White, 3.0% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Cotton Center School, enrolling 100 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 5% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (100 to 105 students), while the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,509,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 52.7% went to instruction, 38.4% to support services, and 1.1% 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.
Cotton Center School accounts for 100.0% of all Cotton Center Isd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Cotton Center Isd a distant remainder — means Cotton Center Isd-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. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Cotton Center Isd reports 59.0% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Cotton Center Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 11.0% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Cotton Center Isd has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 100 students.
How much does Cotton Center Isd spend per student?
Cotton Center Isd spends $24,270 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Cotton Center Isd?
Cotton Center Isd students are 52.0% Hispanic or Latino, 42.0% White, 3.0% Asian, 1.0% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.