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Ropesville, Texas - 1 schools
An equity score of 53/100 ranks Ropes Isd #469 of 1044 districts in Texas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,774 per pupil, Ropes Isd ranks #626 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Ropes Isd operates 1 public schools serving 546 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 Hockley County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,774 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Texas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 26.1% local, 62.7% state, and 11.2% 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 53/100, ranked #469 of 1044 in Texas against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 1 schools offering Advanced Placement (2 AP courses district-wide), a 622:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 6.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 71.4% White, 27.3% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Ropes School, enrolling 622 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Ropes School accounts for 100.0% of all Ropes Isd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ropes Isd a distant remainder — means Ropes 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.
Ropes Isd student-counselor ratio is 622:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted 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.
Ropes Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 6.6% — 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.