NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools OK

Best-Resourced Schools in Poteau, OK

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5 public K-12 schools in Poteau 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
2,146
Students
46.8/100
Avg Resource Index
15.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Poteau has more public-school enrollment than 15% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Poteau's 5 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Poteau's list includes 2 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 1 combined-grade record. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Poteau's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 77th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 20-point gap between Poteau Upper Es and Poteau Primary Es measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 85%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
77th percentile
Teacher staffing
51st percentile

Poteau Hs accounts for 31.4% of all Poteau public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Poteau-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

Poteau school enrollment varies 2.4× across entities

Poteau school enrollment ranges from 277 students (lowest) to 674 students (highest), a spread of 397 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

Poteau operates one school district — a single-district system

Poteau'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

Poteau student-teacher ratio is 15.3:1 — 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 Poteau is typically wider than the Poteau-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Poteau Upper Es 58
2. Poteau Hs 48
3. Pansy Kidd Ms 48
4. 7th and 8th Grade Academic Ctr 42
5. Poteau Primary Es 38

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Poteau

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 7th and 8th Grade Academic Ctr 72.8/100
  2. 2 Poteau Primary Es 71.1/100
  3. 3 Pansy Kidd Ms 71.1/100
  4. 4 Poteau Upper Es 70.8/100
  5. 5 Poteau Hs 69.8/100

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Which Poteau school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Poteau Upper Es has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Poteau schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Poteau, OK? ▼

Poteau has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,146 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.3:1.

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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.