District profile / Oklahoma

Sallisaw Public Schools

Sallisaw, Oklahoma · Public school district · #63 of 124 Oklahoma districts by enrollment

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1,919

Students

2024-25 school year

Schools

2024-25 school year

$9,648

Spending per student

FY2020-21 · about the same as the Oklahoma median

16.5

Students per teacher

2024-25 · Oklahoma median 16.3

Sallisaw Public Schools is a public school district based in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, serving 1,919 students in 4 schools. By enrollment it ranks #63 of the 124 Oklahoma districts with 1,000 or more students, larger than about 50% of them. Its schools average 480 students each, more than the Oklahoma median of 428. It spends about $9,648 per student on day-to-day operations, about the state median. It has roughly 16.5 students per teacher.

How Sallisaw compares

SallisawOklahoma median, districts with 1,000+ students

Spending per student$9,648

Oklahoma median $9,827 · about the same · FY2020-21

Instruction spending per student$5,920

Oklahoma median $5,709 · about the same · FY2020-21

Students per school480

Oklahoma median 428 · 12% above · 2024-25

Students per teacher16.5

Oklahoma median 16.3 · about the same · 2024-25

Students per counselor240

Oklahoma median 356 · 33% below · 2024-25

Spending and staffing

Where the money comes from$18.6 million in revenue · FY2020-21

Federal 19%State 56%Local 25%

Measure	Sallisaw	Oklahoma median	Year
Current spending per student	$9,648	$9,827	FY2020-21
Instruction spending per student	$5,920	$5,709	FY2020-21
Total spending	$18.9 million	n/a	FY2020-21
Total revenue	$18.6 million	n/a	FY2020-21
Teachers (full-time equivalent)	116	n/a	2024-25
Total staff (full-time equivalent)	269	n/a	2024-25
Students per teacher	16.5	16.3	2024-25
Students per counselor	240	356	2024-25

Spending: NCES school district finance survey (F-33), FY2020-21. Staffing and enrollment: NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-25. Via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. The Oklahoma median compares districts with 1,000 or more students.

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Peer districts in Oklahoma

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District	Students	Schools	Spending per student	Students per teacher	Rank
Miami Public SchoolsMiami	1,997	6	$10,299	19.0	#59
Tuttle Public SchoolsTuttle	1,979	5	$8,749	16.0	#60
Tecumseh Public SchoolsTecumseh	1,946	5	$9,581	16.0	#61
Bridge Creek Public SchoolsBlanchard	1,929	4	$9,115	17.5	#62
Sallisaw Public SchoolsSallisaw · this district	1,919	4	$9,648	16.5	#63

Similar-size districts nationally

District	Students	Spending per student	Students per teacher
Chittenango Central School DistrictChittenango, NY	1,919	$19,925	12.4
Sweeny ISDSweeny, TX	1,919	$12,916	13.7
Demopolis CityDemopolis, AL	1,918	$9,776	15.3
Camden County SchoolsCamden, NC	1,918	$11,025	15.2

Peers are the districts closest in enrollment, so they can still differ in many other ways. Enrollment, school counts and phone numbers are from the NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-25.

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