At $15,612 per pupil, Prelude Preparatory Charter School ranks #307 of 1207 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Prelude Preparatory Charter School operates 1 public schools serving 98 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 Bexar County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,612 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 43.8% local, 22.8% state, and 33.4% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 7.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 92.0% Hispanic or Latino, 3.1% African American, 2.5% White across the district's schools.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 40.8% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (98 to 138 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 2.6 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $1,530,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 55.1% went to instruction, 40% to support services, and 0% 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.
Prelude Preparatory Charter School accounts for 100.0% of all Prelude Preparatory Charter School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Prelude Preparatory Charter School a distant remainder — means Prelude Preparatory Charter School-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.
Prelude Preparatory Charter School reports 64.3% free-lunch eligibility
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.
Prelude Preparatory Charter School chronic absenteeism rate is 7.4% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Comparisons are relative to Prelude Preparatory Charter School's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Prelude Preparatory Charter School?
Prelude Preparatory Charter School has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 98 students.
How much does Prelude Preparatory Charter School spend per student?
Prelude Preparatory Charter School spends $15,612 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Prelude Preparatory Charter School?
Prelude Preparatory Charter School students are 92.0% Hispanic or Latino, 3.1% African American, 2.5% White, 1.9% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.