The center provides occupational and physical therapy to its special needs students and works closely with the families they serve. The biggest issues facing the center are a lack of space even after having added two new classes this year. A stop at Shawnee Elementary School featured the school's accelerated reading program. A Great Expectations school, officials are concerned about the community's dropping socioeconomic base and the need for funds to increase teacher salaries and for capital improvements. Shawnee Middle School offers Spanish as a foreign language and a technology lab which serves students in all grades.
Additional funding is needed for teacher salaries and additional classroom space.
Mobil Corporation donated an atrium to Sequoyah Elementary . Students there are concerned about keeping violence out of their school and would like to see additional classrooms built so they may continue to stay in their school throughout the middle school years. Students at Horace Mann Elementary are putting to good use the school's new Discovery Center, a dedicated science room where students can actively study that subject. They are seeking a full-time teacher to staff the center. The school has an active after-school program in which students from Oklahoma Baptist University tutor students and help them with their homework.