An equity score of 73/100 ranks Nueces Canyon Cisd #145 of 1047 districts in Texas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,605 per pupil, Nueces Canyon Cisd ranks #171 of 1207 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Nueces Canyon Cisd operates 2 public schools serving 248 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Edwards County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,605 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 1207 Texas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Texas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 63.8% local, 18.0% state, and 18.1% 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 73/100, ranked #145 of 1047 in Texas against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 120:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 15.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 52.1% White, 45.0% Hispanic or Latino, 0.9% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Nueces Canyon El, enrolling 126 students (53% of the district's total enrollment).
Nueces Canyon El accounts for 50.8% of all Nueces Canyon Cisd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Nueces Canyon Cisd a distant remainder — means Nueces Canyon Cisd-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.
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.
Nueces Canyon Cisd student-counselor ratio is 120:1 — 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.
Nueces Canyon Cisd chronic absenteeism rate is 15.5% — 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 Nueces Canyon Cisd is typically wider than the Nueces Canyon Cisd-aggregate figure suggests.