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Shallowater, Texas - 5 schools
An equity score of 40/100 ranks Shallowater Isd #693 of 1044 districts in Texas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,833 per pupil, Shallowater Isd ranks #815 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,762
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$11,833
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Shallowater Isd operates 5 public schools serving 1,762 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 2 elementary, 1 high 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 Lubbock County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,833 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 29.9% local, 54.6% state, and 15.5% 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 40/100, ranked #693 of 1044 in Texas against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 5 schools offering Advanced Placement (3 AP courses district-wide), a 366.5:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 15.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 58.9% White, 38.4% Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Shallowater H S, with a diversity index of 47.8/100.
Its largest campus is Shallowater H S, enrolling 518 students (30% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Daep, at 6 students, a 86x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Shallowater H S accounts for 29.4% of all Shallowater Isd student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Shallowater Isd-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Shallowater Isd school enrollment varies 86× across entities
Shallowater Isd school enrollment ranges from 6 students (lowest) to 518 students (highest), a spread of 512 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Shallowater Isd student-counselor ratio is 367:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Shallowater Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 15.9% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Shallowater Isd is typically wider than the Shallowater Isd-aggregate figure suggests.