Marfa Schools

Size

Marfa Schools is the only school in Marfa ISD, so its 194 students are the district's whole enrollment. The 8 nearest schools are a median 59.4 miles away and have a median of 118 students, so Marfa Schools is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 6 with 22 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 7, against an average of 14 per grade. This year grade 12 has 55% more students than kindergarten (17 against 11). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 7 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 91.8% of enrollment, a higher share than across Texas public schools (53.5%).

98.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and a median of 61.6% for Texas schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. State shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Marfa Schools has 21.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 9.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas school ratio of 11, a school with 194 students would have about 17.6 teachers, so Marfa Schools has 3.7 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas schools (11).

Location

NCES classifies its location as rural, remote, which means it is in rural territory more than 25 miles from an urbanized area and more than 10 miles from a town. The nearest other school is Ft Davis School, 20.4 miles away in Ft Davis ISD. No other school is within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.