About Merkel ISD
Merkel ISD is a public school system serving Taylor County, Texas, based in Merkel. It serves 1,090 students across 3 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a rural: distant district. By enrollment it is the #548 largest of Texas’s 1211 school systems.
Size and structure
Merkel ISD enrolls 1,090 students in 3 schools — an average of about 363 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #548 of 1211 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Merkel ISD, from the NCES Common Core of Data (1,090 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Merkel ISD employs about 104 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 10.5:1 — below the Texas average of about 14.9:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 203.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Texas funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Merkel ISD are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Texas assigns A–F accountability ratings across Student Achievement, School Progress and Closing the Gaps. Look up Merkel ISD’s ratings through the TEA School and District Accountability portal, which links to the TXschools.gov rating lookup.
Accreditation status
Texas accredits public districts itself: the Texas Education Agency assigns each district an accreditation status (Accredited, Accredited-Warned, Accredited-Probation or Not Accredited-Revoked), separate from any voluntary Cognia accreditation. See the Texas Education Agency for a district’s status.
Merkel ISD vs. Texas
See every Texas district side by side in the Texas directory.
Look up Merkel ISD’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):