NCES CCD 2024-25 17 schools OK

Best-Resourced Schools in Shawnee, OK

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

17
Schools
6,877
Students
48.4/100
Avg Resource Index
15.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Shawnee has more public-school enrollment than 69% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Shawnee 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Shawnee's list includes 5 elementary, 3 middle, and 3 high-school campuses, plus 6 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Shawnee's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 82nd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 45th 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 31%
School count
Top 19%
Resource Index average
82nd percentile
Teacher staffing
45th percentile

Shawnee Hs accounts for 15.2% of all Shawnee public-school enrollment

That concentration means Shawnee-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

Shawnee school enrollment varies 7.4× across entities

Shawnee school enrollment ranges from 141 students (lowest) to 1,045 students (highest), a spread of 904 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

Shawnee operates 6 school districts — among the most fragmented governance structures in the country

Each school district has independent budgeting, hiring, and service delivery authority. The fragmentation reflects historical patterns of inter-municipal boundary lines that pre-date modern city growth, students in different parts of the same city can attend different districts with different per-pupil spending, calendars, and graduation requirements. Per-region variation is largest in fragmented systems because each school district sets its own budget, contracts, and priorities without higher-level coordination above the regulatory floor.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Shawnee student-teacher ratio is 15.8:1 — 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 Shawnee is typically wider than the Shawnee-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Shawnee Ec Ctr 59
2. Will Rogers Es 58
3. North Rock Creek Ms 55
4. Bethel Es 54
5. Bethel Hs 54
6. Pleasant Grove Public School 53
7. Horace Mann Es 52
8. Bethel Ms 51
9. North Rock Creek Intermediate 50
10. Grove Public School 45
11. South Rock Creek Public School 45
12. Sequoyah Es 44
13. Shawnee Hs 42
14. Shawnee Ms 42
15. Jefferson Es 41
16. North Rock Creek Es 39
17. North Rock Creek Hs 38

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Shawnee

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 Horace Mann Es 73.9/100
  2. 2 Jefferson Es 71.8/100
  3. 3 Will Rogers Es 71.2/100
  4. 4 Shawnee Ms 71.1/100
  5. 5 Pleasant Grove Public School 70.2/100

What do families ask about schools in Shawnee?

Which Shawnee school has the highest Resource Investment Index?

Shawnee Ec Ctr has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Shawnee schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Shawnee, OK?

Shawnee has 17 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,877 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.8:1.

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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.