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Austin, Texas - 1 schools
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Texas Sch for the Blind & Visually Impaired operates 1 public schools serving 127 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 Travis County.
a 129:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 45.7% Hispanic or Latino, 34.9% White, 12.4% African American across the district's schools.
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired accounts for 100.0% of all Texas Sch for the Blind & Visually Impaired student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Texas Sch for the Blind & Visually Impaired a distant remainder — means Texas Sch for the Blind & Visually Impaired-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 Sch for the Blind & Visually Impaired has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 77.2% 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). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. 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.
Texas Sch for the Blind & Visually Impaired student-counselor ratio is 129:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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 Sch for the Blind & Visually Impaired's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Texas Sch for the Blind & Visually Impaired?
Texas Sch for the Blind & Visually Impaired has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 127 students.
What is the demographic composition of Texas Sch for the Blind & Visually Impaired?
Texas Sch for the Blind & Visually Impaired students are 45.7% Hispanic or Latino, 34.9% White, 12.4% African American, 3.9% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.