At $20,259 per pupil, Sierra Blanca Isd ranks #86 of 1207 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Sierra Blanca Isd operates 1 public schools serving 116 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 Hudspeth County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,259 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 69.6% local, 20.4% state, and 10.0% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 48.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 83.0% Hispanic or Latino, 12.0% White, 2.0% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Sierra Blanca School, enrolling 100 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Sierra Blanca School accounts for 86.2% of all Sierra Blanca Isd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Sierra Blanca Isd a distant remainder — means Sierra Blanca 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.
Sierra Blanca Isd reports 78.4% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. 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.
Sierra Blanca Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 48.0% — 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.
Sierra Blanca Isd has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 116 students.
How much does Sierra Blanca Isd spend per student?
Sierra Blanca Isd spends $20,259 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Sierra Blanca Isd?
Sierra Blanca Isd students are 83.0% Hispanic or Latino, 12.0% White, 2.0% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.