NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools OK

Best-Resourced Schools in Pauls Valley, OK

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

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Schools
1,728
Students
52.2/100
Avg Resource Index
15.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Pauls Valley has more public-school enrollment than 8% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Pauls Valley 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

3 of Pauls Valley'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

Pauls Valley's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 92nd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 48th percentile. The 44-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 92%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
92nd percentile
Teacher staffing
48th percentile

Pauls Valley Elementary School accounts for 26.7% of all Pauls Valley public-school enrollment

That concentration means Pauls Valley-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

Pauls Valley student-teacher ratio is 15.5:1 — 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 Pauls Valley is typically wider than the Pauls Valley-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Pauls Valley Hs 57
2. Pauls Valley Intermediate School 57
3. Pauls Valley Elementary School 52
4. Pauls Valley Jhs 52
5. Whitebead Public School 43

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Pauls Valley

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 Pauls Valley Intermediate School 71.5/100
  2. 2 Pauls Valley Elementary School 70.2/100
  3. 3 Pauls Valley Hs 66.4/100
  4. 4 Whitebead Public School 66.3/100
  5. 5 Pauls Valley Jhs 65.7/100

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Which Pauls Valley school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Pauls Valley Hs has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Pauls Valley 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 Pauls Valley, OK? ▼

Pauls Valley has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,728 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.5:1.

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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.