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Pawhuska, Oklahoma - 4 schools
An equity score of 33/100 ranks Pawhuska #262 of 439 districts in Oklahoma (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,457 per pupil, Pawhuska ranks #81 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending (Oklahoma districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$15,457
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Pawhuska operates 4 public schools serving 696 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oklahoma. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high, 1 combined, 1 elementary, 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 Osage County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,457 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 44.3% local, 37.8% state, and 17.9% 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 33/100, ranked #262 of 439 in Oklahoma against a state average of 38, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 374.5:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 24.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 24.7% White, 8.4% Hispanic or Latino, 1.6% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Pawhuska Ms, with a diversity index of 72.0/100.
Its largest campus is Pawhuska Hs, enrolling 183 students (27% of the district's total enrollment).
Pawhuska Hs accounts for 26.3% of all Pawhuska student enrollment
That concentration means Pawhuska-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.
Pawhuska student-counselor ratio is 375:1 — 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.
Pawhuska chronic absenteeism rate is 24.9% — 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 Pawhuska is typically wider than the Pawhuska-aggregate figure suggests.