At $16,852 per pupil, Prairie Valley Isd ranks #204 of 1207 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Prairie Valley Isd operates 1 public schools serving 128 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 Montague County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,852 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 35.5% local, 45.4% 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.
and 16.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 74.1% White, 14.8% Hispanic or Latino, 0.7% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Prairie Valley School, enrolling 135 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses held roughly steady from 2022-23 to 2023-24 (128 to 127 students, -0.8%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,328,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 59% went to instruction, 28.9% to support services, and 5.8% 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.
Prairie Valley School accounts for 100.0% of all Prairie Valley Isd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Prairie Valley Isd a distant remainder — means Prairie Valley 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.
Prairie Valley 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 Prairie Valley Isd is typically wider than the Prairie Valley Isd-aggregate figure suggests.
Prairie Valley Isd has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 128 students.
How much does Prairie Valley Isd spend per student?
Prairie Valley Isd spends $16,852 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Prairie Valley Isd?
Prairie Valley Isd students are 74.1% White, 14.8% Hispanic or Latino, 0.7% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.