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San Marcos, Texas - 2 schools
At $22,142 per pupil, Texas Preparatory School ranks #40 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Texas Preparatory School operates 2 public schools serving 73 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary 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 Hays County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $22,142 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 121 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Texas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 25.0% local, 48.0% state, and 27.0% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 58.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 49.2% Hispanic or Latino, 40.7% African American, 5.1% Asian across the district's schools.
Texas Preparatory School - Austin Campus accounts for 65.6% of all Texas Preparatory School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Texas Preparatory School a distant remainder — means Texas Preparatory School-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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 Preparatory School chronic absenteeism rate is 58.1% — 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.
Texas Preparatory School has 2 schools, including 2 elementary. Total enrollment is 73 students.
How much does Texas Preparatory School spend per student?
Texas Preparatory School spends $22,142 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Texas Preparatory School?
Texas Preparatory School students are 49.2% Hispanic or Latino, 40.7% African American, 5.1% Asian, averaged across 2 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.