At $15,879 per pupil, Olfen Isd ranks #270 of 1207 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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Schools
$15,879
Per-Pupil Spending
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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 $15,879 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 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.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 6.8% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (132 to 141 students), while the student-teacher ratio tightened by 1.0 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,251,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 43.6% went to instruction, 42.4% to support services, and 3.8% 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.
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 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.
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.
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. 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.
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.