At $22,247 per pupil, Motley County Isd ranks #57 of 1207 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Motley County Isd operates 1 public schools serving 166 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 Motley County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $22,247 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 41.3% local, 39.1% state, and 19.6% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 7.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 68.2% White, 29.6% Hispanic or Latino, 1.1% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Motley County School, enrolling 179 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 3.6% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (166 to 160 students), and the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $4,200,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 43.2% went to instruction, 41.4% to support services, and 12% 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.
Motley County School accounts for 100.0% of all Motley County Isd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Motley County Isd a distant remainder — means Motley County 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.
Motley County Isd reports 62.0% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Motley County Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 7.8% — 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.
Motley County Isd has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 166 students.
How much does Motley County Isd spend per student?
Motley County Isd spends $22,247 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Motley County Isd?
Motley County Isd students are 68.2% White, 29.6% Hispanic or Latino, 1.1% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.