PANOLA ES

PANOLA ES is one of the one-room-style K-5 schools in Wilburton, Oklahoma, run under PANOLA, with 70 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Oklahoma's public schools average about 366 students each, so PANOLA ES sits 81% leaner than that benchmark.

PANOLA ES sits inside PANOLA, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, PANOLA ES shows that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 37% Native American, 10% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, PANOLA ES has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Latimer County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $41,405 per year, roughly 11% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Latimer County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,403 students), PANOLA ES is one campus in the mix.

WILBURTON ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.7 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 71 students in 2018 compared to 70 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 54% to 47% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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