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TAFT ISD

Taft, Texas · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

812
Students enrolled
3
Public schools
64
Classroom teachers (FTE)
12.8:1
Students per teacher

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

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 38
  • Kindergarten 63
  • Grade 1 58
  • Grade 2 50
  • Grade 3 65
  • Grade 4 59
  • Grade 5 57
  • Grade 6 57
  • Grade 7 62
  • Grade 8 54
  • Grade 9 72
  • Grade 10 61
  • Grade 11 61
  • Grade 12 55

By race/ethnicity

  • Hispanic/Latino 84%
  • White 15%
  • Black or African American <1%
  • Two or more races <1%
  • Asian <1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • 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

86% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 696 of 812 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 84%
  • Reduced-price lunch 2%

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

$17,269 spent per student on day-to-day operations Texas median: $13,954 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $8,744
  • Support services $7,385
  • Other (food service, etc.) $1,140

Where the money comes from

  • Local 64%
  • State 22%
  • Federal 14%

Total revenue $21.1 milliontotal spending $16.2 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)

Rural: Distant

Total staff (FTE)

141

District office

400 COLLEGE ST, Taft TX 78390

County

San Patricio County

Official website

NCES District ID

4842060

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About TAFT ISD

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

The Taft ISD is responsible for preparing its students to live and work in a changing society. The District will best fulfill this responsibility by providing its students with an environment characterized by strong instructional leadership, high expectations for success for all students, sufficient time for teaching and learning, a safe and orderly school environment, frequent monitoring of students progress, and effective home-school communication. To be successful, our District is committed to: prepare students to be lifelong learners, provide students with a balanced curriculum, provide instruction at the highest level of quality, assist students in improving in the areas of math, reading, and writing, and assist students in developing citizenship and economic responsibility. The Taft ISD believes that all students can learn the necessary basic skills to be independent, productive citizens.
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