At $15,108 per pupil, Panola ranks #111 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending (Oklahoma districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$15,108
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Panola operates 1 public schools serving 65 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 Latimer County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,108 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 37.4% local, 31.8% state, and 30.7% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 31.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 47.1% White, 2.9% Hispanic or Latino, 2.9% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Panola Es, enrolling 70 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Panola Es accounts for 100.0% of all Panola student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Panola a distant remainder — means Panola-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.
Panola chronic absenteeism rate is 31.4% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.