At $19,460 per pupil, Cranfills Gap Isd ranks #106 of 1207 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Cranfills Gap Isd operates 1 public schools serving 126 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 Bosque County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,460 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 52.1% local, 34.1% state, and 13.8% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 116:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 16.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 61.2% White, 35.3% Hispanic or Latino, 1.7% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Cranfills Gap School, enrolling 116 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses held roughly steady from 2022-23 to 2023-24 (126 to 128 students, +1.6%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,665,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 54.4% went to instruction, 31.3% to support services, and 4.4% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Cranfills Gap School accounts for 92.1% of all Cranfills Gap Isd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Cranfills Gap Isd a distant remainder — means Cranfills Gap 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.
Cranfills Gap Isd reports 60.3% 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.
Cranfills Gap Isd student-counselor ratio is 116:1 — 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.
Cranfills Gap Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 16.4% — 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 Cranfills Gap Isd is typically wider than the Cranfills Gap Isd-aggregate figure suggests.
Cranfills Gap Isd has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 126 students.
How much does Cranfills Gap Isd spend per student?
Cranfills Gap Isd spends $19,460 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Cranfills Gap Isd?
Cranfills Gap Isd students are 61.2% White, 35.3% Hispanic or Latino, 1.7% African American, 0.9% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.