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Stephenville, Texas - 2 schools
At $13,830 per pupil, Erath Excels Academy Inc ranks #429 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
103
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$13,830
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Erath Excels Academy Inc operates 2 public schools serving 103 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high 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 Erath County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,830 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Texas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 0.7% local, 70.1% state, and 29.2% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 247:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 62.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 47.6% White, 42.6% Hispanic or Latino, 5.6% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Coastal Horizons Academy, enrolling 72 students (67% of the district's total enrollment).
Coastal Horizons Academy accounts for 67.3% of all Erath Excels Academy Inc student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Erath Excels Academy Inc a distant remainder — means Erath Excels Academy Inc-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Erath Excels Academy Inc has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 70.7% 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). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. 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.
Erath Excels Academy Inc student-counselor ratio is 247:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Erath Excels Academy Inc chronic absenteeism rate is 62.4% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.