NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools OK

Best-Resourced Schools in Ponca City, OK

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

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13
Schools
4,869
Students
43.4/100
Avg Resource Index
16.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Ponca City has more public-school enrollment than 54% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Ponca City 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

7 of Ponca City's 13 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 2 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 49-point gap between Kildare Public School and Washington Pre Kg Center shows the range hidden by Ponca City'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 46%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
62nd percentile
Teacher staffing
40th percentile

Ponca City Hs accounts for 30.8% of all Ponca City public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Ponca City-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

Ponca City school enrollment varies 14× across entities

Ponca City school enrollment ranges from 109 students (lowest) to 1,498 students (highest), a spread of 1,389 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Ponca City student-teacher ratio is 16.3:1 — 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 Ponca City is typically wider than the Ponca City-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Kildare Public School 73
2. Mccord Public School 47
3. E. M. Trout Es 47
4. Liberty Es 44
5. Ponca City East Ms 43
6. Roosevelt Es 43
7. Garfield Es 43
8. Woodlands Es 42
9. Ponca City West Ms 41
10. Union Es 41
11. Lincoln Es 40
12. Ponca City Hs 36
13. Washington Pre Kg Center 24

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Ponca City

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 Lincoln Es 75.2/100
  2. 2 Liberty Es 71.9/100
  3. 3 Union Es 71.6/100
  4. 4 E. M. Trout Es 67.9/100
  5. 5 Ponca City Hs 67.2/100

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Which Ponca City school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Kildare Public School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Ponca City schools in this federal-data comparison at 73/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Ponca City, OK? ▼

Ponca City has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,869 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.3:1.

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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.