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Ladonia, Texas - 2 schools
At $20,372 per pupil, Fannindel Isd ranks #64 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$20,372
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Fannindel Isd operates 2 public schools serving 147 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Fannin County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,372 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 121 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Texas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 34.1% local, 47.9% state, and 18.0% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 19.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 38.5% African American, 30.1% White, 19.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Fannindel El, enrolling 91 students (65% of the district's total enrollment).
Fannindel El accounts for 61.9% of all Fannindel Isd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Fannindel Isd a distant remainder — means Fannindel Isd-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.
Fannindel Isd has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 87.5% 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 a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding 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.
Fannindel Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 19.6% — 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 Fannindel Isd is typically wider than the Fannindel Isd-aggregate figure suggests.