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San Antonio, Texas - 1 schools
At $36,867 per pupil, Prelude Preparatory Charter School ranks #5 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$36,867
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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 $36,867 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 121 of 1202 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.
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 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.
Prelude Preparatory Charter School has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 64.3% 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). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. 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.
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 $36,867 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.