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Forestburg, Texas - 1 schools
At $14,920 per pupil, Forestburg Isd ranks #288 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$14,920
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Forestburg Isd operates 1 public schools serving 185 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 Montague County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,920 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 64.2% local, 17.7% state, and 18.1% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 24.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 77.8% White, 18.3% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Forestburg School, enrolling 180 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Forestburg School accounts for 97.3% of all Forestburg Isd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Forestburg Isd a distant remainder — means Forestburg 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.
Forestburg 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 Forestburg Isd is typically wider than the Forestburg Isd-aggregate figure suggests.