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Mullin, Texas - 5 schools
At $29,810 per pupil, Mullin Isd ranks #10 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
193
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$29,810
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Mullin Isd operates 5 public schools serving 193 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 5 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 Mills County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $29,810 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 121 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Texas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 24.7% local, 44.0% state, and 31.3% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 79:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 29.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 68.1% White, 28.1% Hispanic or Latino, 3.9% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Mullin Main, enrolling 79 students (46% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Mullin Mosaic, at 12 students, a 7x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Mullin Main accounts for 40.9% of all Mullin Isd student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Mullin 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.
Mullin Isd school enrollment varies 6.6× across entities
Mullin Isd school enrollment ranges from 12 students (lowest) to 79 students (highest), a spread of 67 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Mullin Isd has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 82.2% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Mullin Isd student-counselor ratio is 79:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.
Mullin Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 29.2% — 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 Mullin Isd is typically wider than the Mullin Isd-aggregate figure suggests.