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OKEECHOBEE

Okeechobee, Florida · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

6,143
Students enrolled
12
Public schools
340
Classroom teachers (FTE)
18.1:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 125
  • Kindergarten 408
  • Grade 1 479
  • Grade 2 497
  • Grade 3 491
  • Grade 4 450
  • Grade 5 486
  • Grade 6 423
  • Grade 7 450
  • Grade 8 484
  • Grade 9 497
  • Grade 10 502
  • Grade 11 422
  • Grade 12 429

By race/ethnicity

  • Hispanic/Latino 46%
  • White 43%
  • Black or African American 6%
  • Two or more races 3%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Asian <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

80% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 4,921 of 6,142 students in the 10 of its 11 schools that report
  • Free lunch 73%
  • Reduced-price lunch 7%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$12,404 spent per student on day-to-day operations Florida median: $12,447 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $6,887
  • Support services $4,634
  • Other (food service, etc.) $884

Where the money comes from

  • Local 33%
  • State 45%
  • Federal 21%

Total revenue $86.4 milliontotal spending $94.9 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Town: DistantStudents: 64% town, 36% rural

Total staff (FTE)

766

District office

700 SW 2ND AVE, Okeechobee FL 34974

County

Okeechobee County

Official website

NCES District ID

1201410

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About OKEECHOBEE

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

It is the mission of the Okeechobee County School District to prepare every student to enter college or technical training without need of remedial instruction and/or enter the job market at a level significantly above minimum wage. All students will be instilled with knowledge of the democratic process and possess the attitudes and values necessary to function as productive members of society.
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