At $20,634 per pupil, Panther Creek Cisd ranks #75 of 1207 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Panther Creek Cisd operates 1 public schools serving 145 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 Coleman County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,634 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 44.3% local, 36.6% state, and 19.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 163:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 27.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 73.6% White, 20.9% Hispanic or Latino, 1.2% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Panther Creek School, enrolling 163 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 11% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (145 to 161 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 0.6 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,420,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 51.8% went to instruction, 31.3% to support services, and 9.8% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Panther Creek School accounts for 100.0% of all Panther Creek Cisd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Panther Creek Cisd a distant remainder — means Panther Creek 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.
Panther Creek Cisd reports 55.9% 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.
Panther Creek Cisd student-counselor ratio is 163:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Panther Creek Cisd chronic absenteeism rate is 27.6% — 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 Panther Creek Cisd is typically wider than the Panther Creek Cisd-aggregate figure suggests.
Panther Creek Cisd has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 145 students.
How much does Panther Creek Cisd spend per student?
Panther Creek Cisd spends $20,634 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Panther Creek Cisd?
Panther Creek Cisd students are 73.6% White, 20.9% Hispanic or Latino, 1.2% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.