At $13,902 per pupil, Shady Point ranks #159 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending (Oklahoma districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Shady Point operates 1 public schools serving 153 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 Le Flore County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,902 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 18.0% local, 46.8% state, and 35.2% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 29.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 56.3% White, 7.0% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Shady Point Public School, enrolling 158 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 12.4% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (153 to 172 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 1.6 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,806,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 43.1% went to instruction, 26.6% to support services, and 23% to capital outlay, a capital-heavy year, consistent with active construction, renovation, or major equipment purchases. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Shady Point Public School accounts for 100.0% of all Shady Point student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Shady Point a distant remainder — means Shady Point-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 Point chronic absenteeism rate is 29.7% — 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 Shady Point is typically wider than the Shady Point-aggregate figure suggests.