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Thomas, Oklahoma - 3 schools
An equity score of 48/100 ranks Thomas-Fay-Custer Unified Dist #115 of 439 districts in Oklahoma (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,627 per pupil, Thomas-Fay-Custer Unified Dist ranks #49 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending (Oklahoma districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
465
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$17,627
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Thomas-Fay-Custer Unified Dist operates 3 public schools serving 465 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 Custer County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,627 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 54 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending. See how Oklahoma compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 66.8% local, 19.6% state, and 13.6% 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 48/100, ranked #115 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 463.6:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 9.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 71.2% White, 8.1% Hispanic or Latino, 0.7% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Thomas Es, with a diversity index of 52.5/100.
Its largest campus is Thomas Es, enrolling 260 students (57% of the district's total enrollment).
Thomas Es accounts for 55.9% of all Thomas-Fay-Custer Unified Dist student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Thomas-Fay-Custer Unified Dist a distant remainder — means Thomas-Fay-Custer Unified Dist-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.
Thomas-Fay-Custer Unified Dist school enrollment varies 2.8× across entities
Thomas-Fay-Custer Unified Dist school enrollment ranges from 94 students (lowest) to 260 students (highest), a spread of 166 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.
Thomas-Fay-Custer Unified Dist student-counselor ratio is 464:1 — 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.
Thomas-Fay-Custer Unified Dist chronic absenteeism rate is 9.5% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Thomas-Fay-Custer Unified Dist's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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