At $14,179 per pupil, Shady Grove ranks #140 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending (Oklahoma districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$14,179
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Shady Grove operates 1 public schools serving 134 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 Cherokee County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,179 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 11.7% local, 52.3% state, and 36.0% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 223.3:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 1.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 18.7% White, 2.2% Hispanic or Latino, 0.7% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Shady Grove Public School, enrolling 134 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Shady Grove Public School accounts for 100.0% of all Shady Grove student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Shady Grove a distant remainder — means Shady Grove-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.
Shady Grove student-counselor ratio is 223:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Shady Grove chronic absenteeism rate is 1.5% — 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.