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Ranger, Texas - 3 schools
An equity score of 83/100 ranks Ranger Isd #43 of 1044 districts in Texas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,217 per pupil, Ranger Isd ranks #266 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
323
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$15,217
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Ranger Isd operates 3 public schools serving 323 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 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 Eastland County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,217 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 29.4% local, 50.8% state, and 19.8% 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 83/100, ranked #43 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.
and 52.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 70.9% White, 25.3% Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Ranger H S, with a diversity index of 50.4/100.
Its largest campus is Ranger El, enrolling 151 students (52% of the district's total enrollment).
Ranger El accounts for 46.7% of all Ranger Isd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ranger Isd a distant remainder — means Ranger Isd-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.
Ranger Isd school enrollment varies 2.3× across entities
Ranger Isd school enrollment ranges from 65 students (lowest) to 151 students (highest), a spread of 86 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Ranger Isd has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 76.0% 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.
Ranger Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 52.9% — 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.