NCES CCD 2024-25 12 schools OK

Best-Resourced Schools in Owasso, OK

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

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12
Schools
9,126
Students
40.9/100
Avg Resource Index
17.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Owasso has more public-school enrollment than 78% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Owasso 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

8 of Owasso's 12 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 11-point gap between Stone Canyon Es and Mills Es shows the range hidden by Owasso'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 22%
School count
Top 31%
Resource Index average
50th percentile
Teacher staffing
28th percentile

Owasso Hs accounts for 33.4% of all Owasso public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Owasso-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

Owasso school enrollment varies 8.2× across entities

Owasso school enrollment ranges from 374 students (lowest) to 3,050 students (highest), a spread of 2,676 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

Owasso operates one school district — a single-district system

Owasso's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Owasso student-teacher ratio is 17.6:1 — 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 Owasso is typically wider than the Owasso-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Stone Canyon Es 46
2. Owasso 7th Grade Ctr 45
3. Barnes Es 43
4. Owasso 8th Grade Ctr 42
5. Pamela Hodson Es 42
6. Larkin Bailey Es 42
7. Hayward Smith Es 41
8. Owasso Hs 40
9. Northeast Es 39
10. Ator Es 39
11. Owasso 6th Grade Ctr 37
12. Mills Es 35

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Owasso

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 Mills Es 72.1/100
  2. 2 Ator Es 71.8/100
  3. 3 Northeast Es 70.9/100
  4. 4 Larkin Bailey Es 68.4/100
  5. 5 Owasso 7th Grade Ctr 68.3/100

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Which Owasso school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Stone Canyon Es has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Owasso schools in this federal-data comparison at 46/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Owasso, OK? ▼

Owasso has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 9,126 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.6:1.

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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.