At $20,896 per pupil, Royal Public Schools ranks #72 of 1207 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Royal Public Schools operates 1 public schools serving 192 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary 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 $20,896 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 49.7% local, 32.1% state, and 18.3% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 12.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 86.6% Hispanic or Latino, 7.2% White, 3.2% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Royal Academy of Excellence, enrolling 469 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 79.7% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (192 to 345 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 4.7 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $4,030,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 50.6% went to instruction, 43.8% 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.
Royal Academy of Excellence accounts for 100.0% of all Royal Public Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Royal Public Schools a distant remainder — means Royal Public Schools-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Royal Public Schools reports 94.3% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. 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.
Royal Public Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 12.6% — 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.
Royal Public Schools has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 192 students.
How much does Royal Public Schools spend per student?
Royal Public Schools spends $20,896 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Royal Public Schools?
Royal Public Schools students are 86.6% Hispanic or Latino, 7.2% White, 3.2% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.