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Allen, Texas - 6 schools
An equity score of 6/100 ranks Lovejoy Isd #1043 of 1044 districts in Texas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $10,331 per pupil, Lovejoy Isd ranks #1073 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
4,254
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$10,331
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Lovejoy Isd operates 6 public schools serving 4,254 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 elementary, 1 high, 1 middle, 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 Collin County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,331 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Texas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 82.1% local, 12.6% state, and 5.2% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 6/100, ranked #1043 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 6 schools offering Advanced Placement (27 AP courses district-wide), a 428.8:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 16.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 63.8% White, 14.7% Asian, 10.0% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Lovejoy Childhood Development Center, with a diversity index of 69.2/100.
Its largest campus is Lovejoy H S, enrolling 1,581 students (39% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Lovejoy Childhood Development Center, at 60 students, a 26x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Lovejoy H S accounts for 37.2% of all Lovejoy Isd student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Lovejoy 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.
Lovejoy Isd school enrollment varies 26× across entities
Lovejoy Isd school enrollment ranges from 60 students (lowest) to 1,581 students (highest), a spread of 1,521 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Lovejoy Isd student-counselor ratio is 429:1 — 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.
Lovejoy Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 16.4% — 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 Lovejoy Isd is typically wider than the Lovejoy Isd-aggregate figure suggests.