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Coalgate, Oklahoma - 3 schools
An equity score of 49/100 ranks Coalgate #98 of 439 districts in Oklahoma (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,233 per pupil, Coalgate ranks #118 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending (Oklahoma districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
700
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$14,233
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Coalgate operates 3 public schools serving 700 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oklahoma. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Coal County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,233 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 52.3% local, 31.5% state, and 16.2% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 49/100, ranked #98 of 439 in Oklahoma against a state average of 38, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 160.8:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 17.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 49.1% White, 6.6% Hispanic or Latino, 1.0% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Emerson Es, with a diversity index of 63.5/100.
Its largest campus is Emerson Es, enrolling 394 students (55% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Wallace Byrd Ms, at 87 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Emerson Es accounts for 55.0% of all Coalgate student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Coalgate a distant remainder — means Coalgate-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.
Coalgate school enrollment varies 4.5× across entities
Coalgate school enrollment ranges from 87 students (lowest) to 394 students (highest), a spread of 307 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Coalgate student-counselor ratio is 161:1 — 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.
Coalgate chronic absenteeism rate is 17.1% — 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 Coalgate is typically wider than the Coalgate-aggregate figure suggests.