County / FIPS 48073
Cherokee County
Texas
Cherokee County runs 24 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 3 Medicare-certified hospitals reporting to CMS.
At a glance
Public schools
24
Hospitals
3
With a star rating
0
Land area
1,053
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Cherokee County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$309.6M
Per resident
$6,142
Change since FY2021
+5%
Fiscal years covered
5
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| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $294M |
| 2022 | $250M |
| 2023 | $301M |
| 2024 | $252M |
| 2025 | $310M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Cherokee County ranks 1219th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Cherokee County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Ut Health East Texas Jacksonville Hospital | Jacksonville | Not rated |
| Christus Mother Frances Hospital- Jacksonville | Jacksonville | Not rated |
| Rusk State Hosp | Rusk | Not rated |
Public schools in Cherokee County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alto El | Alto ISD | Alto | 208 |
| Alto H S | Alto ISD | Alto | 161 |
| Alto Middle | Alto ISD | Alto | 167 |
| Bullard Early Childhood | Bullard ISD | Bullard | 309 |
| Bullard El | Bullard ISD | Bullard | 434 |
| Bullard H S | Bullard ISD | Bullard | 848 |
| Bullard Int | Bullard ISD | Bullard | 435 |
| Bullard Middle | Bullard ISD | Bullard | 459 |
| Bullard Pri | Bullard ISD | Bullard | 401 |
| East Side El | Jacksonville ISD | Jacksonville | 615 |
| Fred Douglass | Jacksonville ISD | Jacksonville | 623 |
| Gw Bradford Pri | Rusk ISD | Rusk | 376 |
| Jacksonville H S | Jacksonville ISD | Jacksonville | 1,331 |
| Jacksonville Middle | Jacksonville ISD | Jacksonville | 711 |
| Joe Wright El | Jacksonville ISD | Jacksonville | 542 |
| New Summerfield School | New Summerfield ISD | New Summerfield | 515 |
| Nichols Int | Jacksonville ISD | Jacksonville | 666 |
| Rusk El | Rusk ISD | Rusk | 288 |
| Rusk H S | Rusk ISD | Rusk | 610 |
| Rusk Int | Rusk ISD | Rusk | 303 |
| Rusk J H | Rusk ISD | Rusk | 478 |
| Wells School | Wells ISD | Wells | 259 |
| West Side El | Jacksonville ISD | Jacksonville | 404 |
| Compass Center | Jacksonville ISD | Jacksonville | 17 |