NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools OK

Best-Resourced Schools in Idabel, OK

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

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5
Schools
1,559
Students
52.4/100
Avg Resource Index
14.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Idabel has more public-school enrollment than 6% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Idabel 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Idabel's 5 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Idabel's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 92nd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 55th percentile. The 37-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 94%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
92nd percentile
Teacher staffing
55th percentile

Idabel Hs accounts for 27.5% of all Idabel public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Idabel-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

Idabel student-teacher ratio is 14.9:1 — 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 Idabel is typically wider than the Idabel-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Central Es 57
2. Denison Public School 56
3. Idabel Ms 55
4. Idabel Primary South Es 51
5. Idabel Hs 43

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Idabel

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 Idabel Hs 80.8/100
  2. 2 Idabel Ms 80.8/100
  3. 3 Central Es 78.3/100
  4. 4 Idabel Primary South Es 78.2/100
  5. 5 Denison Public School 71.7/100

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Which Idabel school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Central Es has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Idabel schools in this federal-data comparison at 57/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Idabel, OK? ▼

Idabel has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,559 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.9:1.

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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.