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Sour Lake, Texas - 5 schools
An equity score of 26/100 ranks Hardin-Jefferson Isd #904 of 1044 districts in Texas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $9,337 per pupil, Hardin-Jefferson Isd ranks #1157 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,697
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$9,337
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Hardin-Jefferson Isd operates 5 public schools serving 2,697 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 high, 2 combined, 1 middle 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 Hardin County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $9,337 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 39.4% local, 34.5% state, and 26.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 26/100, ranked #904 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 1 of 5 schools offering Advanced Placement (11 AP courses district-wide), a 468.3:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 20.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 66.6% White, 11.7% African American, 11.0% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is China El, with a diversity index of 65.7/100.
Its largest campus is Hardin-Jefferson H S, enrolling 782 students (28% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is New Ae, at 3 students, a 261x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Hardin-Jefferson H S accounts for 28.3% of all Hardin-Jefferson Isd student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Hardin-Jefferson Isd-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Hardin-Jefferson Isd school enrollment varies 261× across entities
Hardin-Jefferson Isd school enrollment ranges from 3 students (lowest) to 782 students (highest), a spread of 779 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Hardin-Jefferson Isd student-counselor ratio is 468:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Hardin-Jefferson Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 20.4% — 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 Hardin-Jefferson Isd is typically wider than the Hardin-Jefferson Isd-aggregate figure suggests.