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Public schools in Oklahoma

697,358 pupils attended 1,781 public schools in Oklahoma in 2024–25, in 579 school districts. Its districts spent $10,995 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $16,398 nationally.

Oklahoma, 2024–25

697.4 thousand
Pupils
697,358
1.4% of the nation's public school pupils.
1,781
Public schools
Operational public schools in NCES’s 2024–25 directory.
16.2
Pupils per teacher
Over the 1,774 schools that report both counts; nationally 15.2.
73
Charter schools
7.9% of pupils.
$10,995
Spending per pupil
Current spending over fall membership, fiscal year 2023.

Oklahoma over time

Oklahoma's public school enrollment excluding pre-kindergarten fell by 2,822 from its peak in 2022–⁠23 to 2024–⁠25

Public school membership in Oklahoma each fall, 2014–⁠15 to 2024–⁠25: all grades, and excluding pre-kindergarten, which is the line the title reads.

Membership is the October 1 count of pupils on a school’s rolls, as the state reported it to NCES.

Every year here reports its pre-kindergarten pupils.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES Common Core of Data — public school membership by state, 2014–15 onwards

The figures behind this chart
Oklahoma's public school enrollment excluding pre-kindergarten fell by 2,822 from its peak in 2022–23 to 2024–25. Public school membership in Oklahoma each fall, 2014–15 to 2024–25: all grades, and excluding pre-kindergarten, which is the line the title reads.
School yearAll gradesExcluding pre-kindergartenPre-kindergarten
2014–⁠15688,511646,29342,218
2015–⁠16692,878651,21841,660
2016–⁠17693,903652,65441,249
2017–⁠18695,092653,36541,727
2018–⁠19698,891656,99041,901
2019–⁠20703,719661,81641,903
2020–⁠21694,113656,95137,162
2021–⁠22698,696660,66038,036
2022–⁠23701,301663,46137,840
2023–⁠24698,761661,45937,302
2024–⁠25697,358660,63936,719

Oklahoma's school districts spent $10,995 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $6,612 in 2005, in each year's dollars

Current spending per pupil in Oklahoma, fiscal years 2005 to 2023: current spending over fall membership, summed over every district. In each year’s dollars, not adjusted for inflation.

Not adjusted for inflation: a dollar in 2005 bought more than a dollar in 2023, and this chart does not say how much more.

Each year is the release NCES has published for it: provisional for most, final for fiscal years 2019 to 2022. A final release revises the provisional one by well under 1% nationally.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) — every fiscal year in the current format

The figures behind this chart
Oklahoma's school districts spent $10,995 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $6,612 in 2005, in each year's dollars. Current spending per pupil in Oklahoma, fiscal years 2005 to 2023: current spending over fall membership, summed over every district. In each year’s dollars, not adjusted for inflation.
Fiscal yearPer pupilPupilsRelease
FY2005$6,612629,145Provisional
FY2006$6,961634,468Provisional
FY2007$7,420639,032Provisional
FY2008$7,685641,682Provisional
FY2009$7,885644,549Provisional
FY2010$7,889654,802Provisional
FY2011$7,580659,828Provisional
FY2012$7,521666,120Provisional
FY2013$7,673673,483Provisional
FY2014$7,693684,090Provisional
FY2015$8,036688,511Provisional
FY2016$8,048692,878Provisional
FY2017$7,888693,903Provisional
FY2018$8,158695,046Provisional
FY2019$9,160698,891Final
FY2020$9,360703,719Final
FY2021$10,047694,113Final
FY2022$10,663698,696Final
FY2023$10,995701,301Provisional

Where Oklahoma’s districts got their money, fiscal year 2023

Revenue of all 597 districts in NCES’s finance file, by source. Nationally, 12.6% came from federal sources.

State sources gave Oklahoma's school districts 43.7% of their revenue in fiscal year 2023

Revenue of Oklahoma's public school districts by source, fiscal year 2023, as a share of their total revenue.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) — newest fiscal year

The figures behind this chart
State sources gave Oklahoma's school districts 43.7% of their revenue in fiscal year 2023. Revenue of Oklahoma's public school districts by source, fiscal year 2023, as a share of their total revenue.
SourceRevenueShare of revenue
Federal$1.5 billion16.5%
State$4.0 billion43.7%
Local$3.6 billion39.8%

The largest districts in Oklahoma

By fall membership in 2024–25. Spending per pupil is the same district’s fiscal year 2023 figure from NCES’s finance file, where it reports one.

The 10 largest public school districts in Oklahoma, 2024–25
DistrictPupilsSchoolsPupils per teacherSpending per pupil, fiscal year 2023
Tulsa33,6176918.1$11,873
Oklahoma City32,7505716.2$13,335
Epic Charter Virtual School28,536218.6$8,074
Edmond25,7462817.2$9,439
Moore23,5673417.4$9,662
Broken Arrow19,8822617.6$8,777
Putnam City18,8362616.0$10,727
Norman16,0482516.6$10,223
Union14,9501717.7$11,334
Lawton13,6422316.1$11,526

City, suburb, town and rural schools in Oklahoma

35.0% of Oklahoma's public school pupils attended rural schools in 2024–⁠25

Pupils in Oklahoma's operational public schools by the kind of place each school is in, 2024–⁠25: NCES's twelve locales grouped into city, suburb, town and rural.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES Common Core of Data — public schools, newest full school year

The figures behind this chart
35.0% of Oklahoma's public school pupils attended rural schools in 2024–25. Pupils in Oklahoma's operational public schools by the kind of place each school is in, 2024–25: NCES's twelve locales grouped into city, suburb, town and rural.
LocaleSchoolsShare of schoolsPupilsShare of pupils
City28115.8%185,54726.6%
Suburb22212.5%159,66622.9%
Town25214.1%107,96415.5%
Rural1,02657.6%244,18135.0%

Colleges in Oklahoma that take federal student aid

97 colleges in Oklahoma are in NCES’s IPEDS universe for 2025–26: 58 public, 15 private nonprofit and 24 private for-profit. They enrolled 276,557 students over twelve months and awarded 20,883 bachelor’s degrees.

Oklahoma elsewhere on the Factbook

  • Reported crimeCrime and justice

    Offenses reported to police by type, the trend, and the reporting coverage.

  • Most dangerous cities in OklahomaCrime and justice

    What each agency serving 25,000 or more reported, ranked. Agency populations overlap, so these do not add up to the state.

  • Prison populationCrime and justice

    People held under the state’s correctional authority, and the imprisonment rate. A different publisher counting a different thing.

  • Arrests by race, sex and ageCrime and justice

    Arrests as the FBI’s participating agencies reported them, with what the figures can and cannot support at the top.

  • Hate crimeCrime and justice

    Incidents reported to the FBI by bias motivation, as counts — the collection publishes no participation share, so there is no rate to compare states on.

  • Federal obligationsFederal spending

    What federal agencies obligated against a place of performance in the state, per resident and by agency.

  • Registered nonprofitsNonprofits

    How many organizations the IRS lists in the state, what they report as revenue, and which kinds of work they do.

  • Payments to doctorsHealth

    What drug and device companies reported paying doctors with a practice address in the state, and the largest recipients.

  • Farm program paymentsFarm subsidies

    What the Farm Service Agency paid through the state’s county offices, by program and by recipient. The offices that administered the payments, not a count of farms: a recipient addressed elsewhere is counted where they were paid.

  • Paycheck Protection Program loansPPP loans

    The PPP loans SBA guaranteed to businesses operating in the state, by county, with how many carry a forgiveness amount and how many were charged off. Loans, not businesses: a business with two draws is two loans.

  • The Oklahoma Factbook entryAcross the Factbook

    Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

The immigration hub has no page for this state: EOIR runs no immigration court here, and CBP publishes by sector and field office, which are its own areas of responsibility rather than a geography. Immigration and the border.

Sources

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25; “School District Finance Survey (F-33),” fiscal year 2023; Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).

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