NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools OK

Best-Resourced Schools in Guymon, OK

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

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9
Schools
3,163
Students
35.4/100
Avg Resource Index
20.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Guymon has more public-school enrollment than 31% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Guymon's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Guymon's 9 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 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Guymon lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 30 to 865 students, a 29-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 69%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
27th percentile
Teacher staffing
14th percentile

Guymon Hs accounts for 27.3% of all Guymon public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Guymon-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

Guymon school enrollment varies 29× across entities

Guymon school enrollment ranges from 30 students (lowest) to 865 students (highest), a spread of 835 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. 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

Guymon student-teacher ratio is 20.3:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Straight Public School 53
2. Guymon Hs 44
3. North Park Es 44
4. Academy Es 39
5. Northeast Es 38
6. Prairie Es 36
7. Central Jhs 34
8. Homer Long Es 21
9. Carrier Es 10

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Guymon

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 Straight Public School 55.1/100
  2. 2 Central Jhs 35.6/100
  3. 3 North Park Es 33.2/100
  4. 4 Academy Es 33.1/100
  5. 5 Carrier Es 33.1/100

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Which Guymon school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Straight Public School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Guymon schools in this federal-data comparison at 53/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Guymon, OK? ▼

Guymon has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,163 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.3:1.

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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.