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Pawnee, Oklahoma - 3 schools
An equity score of 44/100 ranks Pawnee #158 of 439 districts in Oklahoma (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,303 per pupil, Pawnee ranks #213 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending (Oklahoma districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
633
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$12,303
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Pawnee operates 3 public schools serving 633 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 Pawnee County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,303 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 28.5% local, 49.9% state, and 21.6% 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 #158 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.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 3 schools offering Advanced Placement (3 AP courses district-wide), a 322:1 student-counselor ratio, somewhat above the 250:1 ASCA recommendation, and 8.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 42.9% White, 4.3% Hispanic or Latino, 1.4% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Pawnee Hs, with a diversity index of 64.8/100.
Its largest campus is Pawnee Es, enrolling 293 students (48% of the district's total enrollment).
Pawnee Es accounts for 46.3% of all Pawnee student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Pawnee a distant remainder — means Pawnee-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.
Pawnee school enrollment varies 2.2× across entities
Pawnee school enrollment ranges from 134 students (lowest) to 293 students (highest), a spread of 159 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.
Pawnee student-counselor ratio is 322:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Pawnee is typically wider than the Pawnee-aggregate figure suggests.
Pawnee chronic absenteeism rate is 8.4% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.