By law school facilities and infrastructure funding is supported through locally voted bond issues. Operational expenses come through local property taxes and state funding. Operational funding levels are set by the state without local input on a per pupil basis.

Therefore, local school districts can pass whatever level of funding for buildings and facilities they want locally, but all Oklahoma school districts day to day operations are funded together for costs like teachers and utilities by a state legislature that sometimes seems to hate the very idea of public schools.