At $19,033 per pupil, Ft Davis Isd ranks #121 of 1207 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Ft Davis Isd operates 1 public schools serving 183 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 Jeff Davis County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,033 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 77.8% local, 9.6% state, and 12.7% 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 682:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 3.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 56.7% Hispanic or Latino, 30.2% White, 9.1% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Ft Davis School, enrolling 682 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 43.7% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (183 to 263 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 1.5 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,554,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 49.9% went to instruction, 48% to support services, and 1.7% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Ft Davis School accounts for 100.0% of all Ft Davis Isd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ft Davis Isd a distant remainder — means Ft Davis 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.
Ft Davis Isd student-counselor ratio is 682:1 — 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.
Ft Davis Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 3.4% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.
Ft Davis Isd has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 183 students.
How much does Ft Davis Isd spend per student?
Ft Davis Isd spends $19,033 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Ft Davis Isd?
Ft Davis Isd students are 56.7% Hispanic or Latino, 30.2% White, 9.1% African American, 1.5% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.