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Stinnett, Texas - 2 schools
An equity score of 51/100 ranks Plemons-Stinnett-Phillips Cisd #506 of 1044 districts in Texas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,836 per pupil, Plemons-Stinnett-Phillips Cisd ranks #425 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Plemons-Stinnett-Phillips Cisd operates 2 public schools serving 573 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 Hutchinson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,836 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 86.3% local, 5.4% state, and 8.3% 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 51/100, ranked #506 of 1044 in Texas against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 209:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 17.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 69.3% White, 24.6% Hispanic or Latino, 1.0% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is West Texas Secondary School, enrolling 304 students (59% of the district's total enrollment).
West Texas Secondary School accounts for 53.1% of all Plemons-Stinnett-Phillips Cisd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Plemons-Stinnett-Phillips Cisd a distant remainder — means Plemons-Stinnett-Phillips Cisd-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.
Plemons-Stinnett-Phillips Cisd student-counselor ratio is 209:1 — 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.
Plemons-Stinnett-Phillips Cisd chronic absenteeism rate is 17.8% — 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 Plemons-Stinnett-Phillips Cisd is typically wider than the Plemons-Stinnett-Phillips Cisd-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Plemons-Stinnett-Phillips Cisd's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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