At $14,531 per pupil, Belfonte ranks #127 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending (Oklahoma districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
162
Total Enrollment
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$14,531
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Belfonte operates 2 public schools serving 162 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oklahoma. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Sequoyah County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,531 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending. See how Oklahoma compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 9.7% local, 47.3% state, and 43.0% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 54.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 61.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 24.2% White, 2.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Belfonte Public School, enrolling 78 students (58% of the district's total enrollment).
Belfonte Public School accounts for 48.1% of all Belfonte student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Belfonte a distant remainder — means Belfonte-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates 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.
Belfonte student-counselor ratio is 55:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Belfonte chronic absenteeism rate is 61.0% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.