At $13,925 per pupil, Lookeba Sickles ranks #156 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending (Oklahoma districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
187
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$13,925
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Lookeba Sickles operates 2 public schools serving 187 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oklahoma. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high 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 Caddo County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,925 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 27.8% local, 52.7% state, and 19.4% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 16.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 60.9% White, 24.0% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Lookeba-Sickles Es, enrolling 123 students (68% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 3.7% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (187 to 180 students), and the student-teacher ratio widened by 0.7 students per teacher despite the decline, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,825,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 56.1% went to instruction, 27.2% to support services, and 7.6% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Lookeba-Sickles Es accounts for 65.8% of all Lookeba Sickles student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Lookeba Sickles a distant remainder — means Lookeba Sickles-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. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Lookeba Sickles chronic absenteeism rate is 16.8% — 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 Lookeba Sickles is typically wider than the Lookeba Sickles-aggregate figure suggests.