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Wanette, Oklahoma - 2 schools
At $13,836 per pupil, Wanette ranks #133 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending (Oklahoma districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
136
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$13,836
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Wanette operates 2 public schools serving 136 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oklahoma. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 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 Pottawatomie 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 28.4% local, 39.5% state, and 32.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 2 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), a 40:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 43.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 80.0% White, 2.5% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Wanette Es, enrolling 60 students (75% of the district's total enrollment).
Wanette Es accounts for 44.1% of all Wanette student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Wanette-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. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Wanette student-counselor ratio is 40:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.
Wanette chronic absenteeism rate is 43.4% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.