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Pond Creek, Oklahoma - 3 schools
An equity score of 28/100 ranks Pond Creek-Hunter #323 of 439 districts in Oklahoma (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,582 per pupil, Pond Creek-Hunter ranks #64 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending (Oklahoma districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
319
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$16,582
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Pond Creek-Hunter operates 3 public schools serving 319 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oklahoma. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 1 elementary 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 Grant County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,582 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 63.4% local, 25.6% state, and 11.0% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 28/100, ranked #323 of 439 in Oklahoma against a state average of 38, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 725:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 7.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 79.8% White, 9.1% Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Pond Creek-Hunter Es, enrolling 200 students (50% of the district's total enrollment).
Pond Creek-Hunter Es accounts for 49.6% of all Pond Creek-Hunter student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Pond Creek-Hunter a distant remainder — means Pond Creek-Hunter-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.
Pond Creek-Hunter school enrollment varies 2.1× across entities
Pond Creek-Hunter school enrollment ranges from 94 students (lowest) to 200 students (highest), a spread of 106 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.
Pond Creek-Hunter student-counselor ratio is 725:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Pond Creek-Hunter chronic absenteeism rate is 7.4% — 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.