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Sulphur Springs, Texas - 9 schools
An equity score of 52/100 ranks Sulphur Springs Isd #474 of 1044 districts in Texas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,642 per pupil, Sulphur Springs Isd ranks #854 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
4,361
Total Enrollment
9
Schools
$11,642
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Sulphur Springs Isd operates 9 public schools serving 4,361 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 5 elementary, 2 high, 1 middle, 1 combined schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Hopkins County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,642 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 36.2% local, 42.9% state, and 20.9% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 52/100, ranked #474 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 9 schools offering Advanced Placement (8 AP courses district-wide), a 388.2:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 21.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 47.9% White, 34.1% Hispanic or Latino, 10.7% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Douglass Eclc, with a diversity index of 69.0/100.
Its largest campus is Sulphur Springs H S, enrolling 1,270 students (30% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Austin Academic Center, at 17 students, a 75x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Sulphur Springs H S accounts for 29.1% of all Sulphur Springs Isd student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Sulphur Springs 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.
Sulphur Springs Isd school enrollment varies 75× across entities
Sulphur Springs Isd school enrollment ranges from 17 students (lowest) to 1,270 students (highest), a spread of 1,253 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.
Sulphur Springs Isd has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 68.0% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Sulphur Springs Isd student-counselor ratio is 388:1 — 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.
Sulphur Springs Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 21.0% — 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 Sulphur Springs Isd is typically wider than the Sulphur Springs Isd-aggregate figure suggests.