At $19,986 per pupil, Richland Springs Isd ranks #89 of 1207 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Richland Springs Isd operates 1 public schools serving 139 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 San Saba County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,986 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 121 of 1207 Texas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Texas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 46.5% local, 40.3% state, and 13.2% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 13.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 74.2% White, 20.8% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Richland Springs School, enrolling 120 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 (139 to 140 students, +0.7%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,162,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 49.6% went to instruction, 32.7% to support services, and 8.3% 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.
Richland Springs School accounts for 86.3% of all Richland Springs Isd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Richland Springs Isd a distant remainder — means Richland Springs 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.
Richland Springs Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 13.3% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Richland Springs Isd has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 139 students.
How much does Richland Springs Isd spend per student?
Richland Springs Isd spends $19,986 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Richland Springs Isd?
Richland Springs Isd students are 74.2% White, 20.8% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.