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Plainview, Texas - 7 schools
An equity score of 62/100 ranks Plainview Isd #322 of 1044 districts in Texas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,389 per pupil, Plainview Isd ranks #698 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
4,662
Total Enrollment
7
Schools
$12,389
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Plainview Isd operates 7 public schools serving 4,662 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 combined, 2 elementary, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Hale County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,389 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Texas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 25.0% local, 50.4% state, and 24.5% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 62/100, ranked #322 of 1044 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.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 7 schools offering Advanced Placement (7 AP courses district-wide), a 283.6:1 student-counselor ratio, somewhat above the 250:1 ASCA recommendation, and 53.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 83.9% Hispanic or Latino, 10.1% White, 3.6% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Central El, with a diversity index of 36.5/100.
Its largest campus is Plainview H S, enrolling 1,418 students (35% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Hale County Jjaep, at 18 students, a 79x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Plainview H S accounts for 30.4% of all Plainview Isd student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Plainview Isd-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Plainview Isd school enrollment varies 79× across entities
Plainview Isd school enrollment ranges from 18 students (lowest) to 1,418 students (highest), a spread of 1,400 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.
Plainview Isd has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 85.3% 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.
Plainview Isd student-counselor ratio is 284:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Plainview Isd is typically wider than the Plainview Isd-aggregate figure suggests.
Plainview Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 53.0% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.