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Crosby, Texas - 9 schools
An equity score of 20/100 ranks Crosby Isd #969 of 1044 districts in Texas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $9,834 per pupil, Crosby Isd ranks #1127 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
6,717
Total Enrollment
9
Schools
$9,834
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Crosby Isd operates 9 public schools serving 6,717 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 elementary, 2 high, 2 combined, 1 middle schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Harris County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $9,834 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 121 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Texas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 41.3% local, 44.4% state, and 14.3% 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 20/100, ranked #969 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 9 schools offering Advanced Placement (19 AP courses district-wide), a 589.4:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 24.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 57.6% Hispanic or Latino, 24.1% White, 14.1% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Crosby El, with a diversity index of 64.2/100.
Its largest campus is Crosby H S, enrolling 2,148 students (30% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Highpoint School East (Crosby), at 14 students, a 153x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Crosby H S accounts for 30.5% of all Crosby Isd student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Crosby 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.
Crosby Isd school enrollment varies 153× across entities
Crosby Isd school enrollment ranges from 14 students (lowest) to 2,148 students (highest), a spread of 2,134 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.
Crosby Isd has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 61.3% 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.
Crosby Isd student-counselor ratio is 589:1 — 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.
Crosby Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 24.4% — 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 Crosby Isd is typically wider than the Crosby Isd-aggregate figure suggests.