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PORT ARTHUR ISD

Port Arthur, Texas · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

8,041
Students enrolled
15
Public schools
610
Classroom teachers (FTE)
13.2:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 641
  • Kindergarten 597
  • Grade 1 654
  • Grade 2 605
  • Grade 3 647
  • Grade 4 654
  • Grade 5 625
  • Grade 6 490
  • Grade 7 477
  • Grade 8 509
  • Grade 9 533
  • Grade 10 576
  • Grade 11 552
  • Grade 12 481

By race/ethnicity

  • Hispanic/Latino 54%
  • Black or African American 38%
  • White 2%
  • Asian 2%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native 2%
  • Two or more races 2%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

87% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 6,973 of 8,039 students in the 12 of its 13 schools that report
  • Free lunch 86%
  • Reduced-price lunch <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$15,260 spent per student on day-to-day operations Texas median: $13,954 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $7,515
  • Support services $6,922
  • Other (food service, etc.) $823

Where the money comes from

  • Local 63%
  • State 21%
  • Federal 16%

Total revenue $151.5 milliontotal spending $160.2 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

City: SmallStudents: 86% city, 14% rural

Total staff (FTE)

1,300

District office

4801 9TH AVE, Port Arthur TX 77642

County

Jefferson County

Official website

NCES District ID

4835400

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About PORT ARTHUR ISD

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

Our Vision: PAISD Will become a leader in Texas in continuous school improvement by offering to its students a quality education necessary for them to achieve academic excellence. Our Mission: Our mission, as the primary source of public education in the community, is to meet the unique educational needs of our diverse population by providing a comprehensive quality education for students of the Port Arthur Independent School District
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