About Rusk ISD
Rusk ISD is a public school system serving Cherokee County, Texas, based in Rusk. It serves 2,057 students across 5 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a rural: remote district. By enrollment it is the #358 largest of Texas’s 1211 school systems.
Size and structure
Rusk ISD enrolls 2,057 students in 5 schools — an average of about 411 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #358 of 1211 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Rusk ISD, from the NCES Common Core of Data (2,057 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
Rusk ISD employs about 153 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 13.4:1 — below the Texas average of about 14.9:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 336.
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 Rusk 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 Rusk 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.
Rusk ISD vs. Texas
See every Texas district side by side in the Texas directory.
Look up Rusk 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):