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Rowena, Texas - 3 schools
At $13,816 per pupil, Olfen Isd ranks #433 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
132
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$13,816
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Olfen Isd operates 3 public schools serving 132 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 elementary, 1 high 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 Runnels County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,816 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Texas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 6.5% local, 79.9% state, and 13.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 16.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 50.1% White, 49.6% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Olfen School, with a diversity index of 50.7/100.
Its largest campus is Olfen School, enrolling 141 students (97% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Fairview Special Programs, at 1 students, a 141x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Olfen School accounts for 97.2% of all Olfen Isd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Olfen Isd a distant remainder — means Olfen 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.
Olfen Isd school enrollment varies 141× across entities
Olfen Isd school enrollment ranges from 1 students (lowest) to 141 students (highest), a spread of 140 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.
Olfen Isd has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 63.5% 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). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. 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.
Olfen Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 16.3% — 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 Olfen Isd is typically wider than the Olfen Isd-aggregate figure suggests.