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Whitehouse, Texas - 7 schools
An equity score of 26/100 ranks Whitehouse Isd #902 of 1044 districts in Texas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $10,439 per pupil, Whitehouse Isd ranks #1057 of 1202 Texas districts by per-pupil spending (Texas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
4,916
Total Enrollment
7
Schools
$10,439
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Whitehouse Isd operates 7 public schools serving 4,916 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Texas. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 combined, 2 middle, 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 Smith County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,439 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 51.5% local, 34.9% state, and 13.6% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 26/100, ranked #902 of 1044 in Texas against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 7 schools offering Advanced Placement (31 AP courses district-wide), a 463.9:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 14.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 61.8% White, 16.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.6% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Mozelle Brown El, with a diversity index of 66.2/100.
Its largest campus is Whitehouse H S, enrolling 1,404 students (30% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is J W Holloway Sixth Grade School, at 355 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Whitehouse H S accounts for 28.6% of all Whitehouse Isd student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Whitehouse 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.
Whitehouse Isd school enrollment varies 4.0× across entities
Whitehouse Isd school enrollment ranges from 355 students (lowest) to 1,404 students (highest), a spread of 1,049 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.
Whitehouse Isd student-counselor ratio is 464:1 — 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.
Whitehouse Isd chronic absenteeism rate is 14.7% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.