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Seiling, Oklahoma - 3 schools
An equity score of 47/100 ranks Seiling #129 of 439 districts in Oklahoma (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,836 per pupil, Seiling ranks #133 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending (Oklahoma districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
439
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$13,836
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Seiling operates 3 public schools serving 439 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oklahoma. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 1 high 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 Dewey County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,836 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 65.2% local, 24.4% state, and 10.4% 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 47/100, ranked #129 of 439 in Oklahoma against a state average of 38, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 353:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 12.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 68.6% White, 8.5% Hispanic or Latino, 0.2% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Seiling Jr-Sr Hs (Sr), with a diversity index of 53.3/100.
Its largest campus is Seiling Es, enrolling 270 students (62% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Seiling Jr-Sr Hs (Sr), at 75 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Seiling Es accounts for 61.5% of all Seiling student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Seiling a distant remainder — means Seiling-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.
Seiling school enrollment varies 3.6× across entities
Seiling school enrollment ranges from 75 students (lowest) to 270 students (highest), a spread of 195 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.
Seiling student-counselor ratio is 353:1 — 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.
Seiling chronic absenteeism rate is 12.0% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.