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Okeechobee, Florida - 12 schools
An equity score of 44/100 ranks Okeechobee #42 of 67 districts in Florida (state average 51). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $10,838 per pupil, Okeechobee ranks #38 of 67 Florida districts by per-pupil spending (Florida districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
6,398
Total Enrollment
12
Schools
$10,838
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Okeechobee operates 12 public schools serving 6,398 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Florida. The school portfolio breaks down into 9 combined, 2 middle, 1 high schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Okeechobee County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,838 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 67 Florida districts by per-pupil spending. See how Florida compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 31.1% local, 45.0% state, and 23.9% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 44/100, ranked #42 of 67 in Florida against a state average of 51, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 12 schools offering Advanced Placement (15 AP courses district-wide), a 452.2:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 62.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 49.8% Hispanic or Latino, 40.5% White, 5.2% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Okeechobee Achievement Academy, with a diversity index of 61.2/100.
Its largest campus is Okeechobee High School, enrolling 1,718 students (28% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Student Serv./Special Programs, at 1 students, a 1718x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Okeechobee High School accounts for 26.9% of all Okeechobee student enrollment
That concentration means Okeechobee-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Okeechobee school enrollment varies 1718× across entities
Okeechobee school enrollment ranges from 1 students (lowest) to 1,718 students (highest), a spread of 1,717 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Okeechobee has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 62.2% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Okeechobee student-counselor ratio is 452:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Okeechobee chronic absenteeism rate is 62.6% — 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.