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Whitefield, Oklahoma - 1 schools
An equity score of 27/100 ranks Whitefield #336 of 439 districts in Oklahoma (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $8,521 per pupil, Whitefield ranks #520 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending (Oklahoma districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Whitefield operates 1 public schools serving 215 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 Haskell County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $8,521 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 54 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending. See how Oklahoma compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 12.2% local, 62.8% state, and 24.9% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 27/100, ranked #336 of 439 in Oklahoma against a state average of 38, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 6.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 52.4% White, 8.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Whitefield Public School, enrolling 231 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Whitefield Public School accounts for 100.0% of all Whitefield student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Whitefield a distant remainder — means Whitefield-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.
Whitefield chronic absenteeism rate is 6.5% — 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.