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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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County / FIPS 48505

Zapata County

Texas

Zapata County runs 6 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; Texas has other facilities nearby.

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At a glance

Public schools

6schools

Hospitals

0facilities

With a star rating

0facilities

Land area

998sq mi

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Federal money

Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Zapata County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.

Obligations, FY2025

$51.6M

2861st of 3,233 among counties

Per resident

$3,7182020 population

Change since FY2021

+11%nominal

Fiscal years covered

5years

Federal obligations in Zapata County, FY2021–FY2025
$40M$60M$80M
$52M
202120232025
View as table
PeriodObligations
2021$46M
2022$43M
2023$78M
2024$46M
2025$52M

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. Zapata County ranks 2861st of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.

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Public schools in Zapata County

Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.

Public schools in Zapata County
SchoolDistrictCityEnrollment
Benavides ElZapata County ISDZapata61
Fidel and Andrea R Villarreal ElZapata County ISDZapata449
Zapata H SZapata County ISDZapata1,034
Zapata MiddleZapata County ISDZapata784
Zapata North ElZapata County ISDZapata581
Zapata South ElZapata County ISDZapata467
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