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Tahlequah, Oklahoma - 1 schools
At $20,695 per pupil, Cherokee Immersion Charter Sch ranks #21 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending (Oklahoma districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Cherokee Immersion Charter Sch operates 1 public schools serving 103 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oklahoma. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 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 Cherokee County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,695 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 54 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending. See how Oklahoma compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 59.2% local, 34.7% state, and 6.2% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 112:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 20.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 7.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Cherokee Immersion Charter Sch accounts for 100.0% of all Cherokee Immersion Charter Sch student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Cherokee Immersion Charter Sch a distant remainder — means Cherokee Immersion Charter Sch-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Cherokee Immersion Charter Sch student-counselor ratio is 112:1 — 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.
Cherokee Immersion Charter Sch chronic absenteeism rate is 20.5% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Cherokee Immersion Charter Sch is typically wider than the Cherokee Immersion Charter Sch-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Cherokee Immersion Charter Sch's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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