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Austin, Texas - 5 schools
567
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Texas Juvenile Justice Department operates 5 public schools serving 567 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 combined, 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 Travis County.
a 203.2:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 7.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 41.8% Hispanic or Latino, 40.6% African American, 15.6% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Lone Star H S Central, with a diversity index of 65.7/100.
Its largest campus is Lone Star H S Central, enrolling 225 students (30% of the district's total enrollment).
Lone Star H S Central accounts for 29.8% of all Texas Juvenile Justice Department student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Texas Juvenile Justice Department-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.
Texas Juvenile Justice Department school enrollment varies 2.7× across entities
Texas Juvenile Justice Department school enrollment ranges from 82 students (lowest) to 225 students (highest), a spread of 143 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Texas Juvenile Justice Department student-counselor ratio is 203:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Texas Juvenile Justice Department chronic absenteeism rate is 7.0% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Texas Juvenile Justice Department's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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