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Sweet Home, Texas - 1 schools
At $11,882 per pupil, Sweet Home Isd ranks #807 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
145
Total Enrollment
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$11,882
Per-Pupil Spending
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Sweet Home Isd operates 1 public schools serving 145 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 Lavaca County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,882 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 45.6% local, 44.7% state, and 9.7% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 815.8:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 3.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 83.2% White, 13.5% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Sweet Home El, enrolling 155 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Sweet Home El accounts for 100.0% of all Sweet Home Isd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Sweet Home Isd a distant remainder — means Sweet Home 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.
Sweet Home Isd student-counselor ratio is 816:1 — 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.
Sweet Home Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 3.9% — 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.
Sweet Home Isd has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 145 students.
How much does Sweet Home Isd spend per student?
Sweet Home Isd spends $11,882 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Sweet Home Isd?
Sweet Home Isd students are 83.2% White, 13.5% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.