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Hallsville, Texas - 7 schools
An equity score of 32/100 ranks Hallsville Isd #811 of 1044 districts in Texas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $9,408 per pupil, Hallsville Isd ranks #1152 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
19,818
Total Enrollment
7
Schools
$9,408
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Hallsville Isd operates 7 public schools serving 19,818 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 combined, 1 high, 1 middle, 1 elementary 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 Harrison County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $9,408 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 23.4% local, 70.4% state, and 6.1% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 32/100, ranked #811 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 2 of 7 schools offering Advanced Placement (28 AP courses district-wide), a 538.9:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 29.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 61.3% White, 22.6% Hispanic or Latino, 9.7% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Texas Virtual Academy at Hallsville, with a diversity index of 65.1/100.
Its largest campus is Texas Virtual Academy at Hallsville, enrolling 19,731 students (80% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Hallsville North El, at 592 students, a 33x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Texas Virtual Academy at Hallsville accounts for 80.2% of all Hallsville Isd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Hallsville Isd a distant remainder — means Hallsville 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.
Hallsville Isd school enrollment varies 33× across entities
Hallsville Isd school enrollment ranges from 592 students (lowest) to 19,731 students (highest), a spread of 19,139 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme enrollment heterogeneity, the district operates both small specialty programs and large comprehensive campuses inside a single budgeting unit. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Hallsville Isd student-counselor ratio is 539:1 — 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.
Hallsville Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 29.4% — 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 Hallsville Isd is typically wider than the Hallsville Isd-aggregate figure suggests.