NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools OK

Best-Resourced Schools in Cushing, OK

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6 public K-12 schools in Cushing from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
1,835
Students
47.8/100
Avg Resource Index
15.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Cushing has more public-school enrollment than 10% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Cushing sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Cushing's 6 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 0 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 29-point gap between Cushing Ms and Cushing Lower Es shows the range hidden by Cushing's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 90%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
80th percentile
Teacher staffing
46th percentile

Cushing Hs accounts for 28.4% of all Cushing public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Cushing-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Cushing school enrollment varies 5.9× across entities

Cushing school enrollment ranges from 89 students (lowest) to 521 students (highest), a spread of 432 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Cushing student-teacher ratio is 15.7:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Cushing is typically wider than the Cushing-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Cushing Ms 58
2. Oak Grove Public School 58
3. Cushing Hs 54
4. Cushing Upper Es 50
5. Cushing Pre-Kindergarten Schl 38
6. Cushing Lower Es 29

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Cushing

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Cushing Hs 58.4/100
  2. 2 Cushing Upper Es 56.8/100
  3. 3 Cushing Pre-Kindergarten Schl 50.8/100
  4. 4 Cushing Ms 50.0/100
  5. 5 Cushing Lower Es 45.6/100

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Which Cushing school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Cushing Ms has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Cushing schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Cushing, OK? ▼

Cushing has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,835 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.7:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.