The total unemployment rate for the district is 17 percent. Indications are that current unemployment has approximately doubled within the past two years. Maryetta School District is deep within this poverty zone. District revenue from local and county funding amounted to 7.2 percent as compared to a state average of 32 percent. Only 26.9 percent of high school graduates in Adair county go on to college, the lowest percentage of any county in Oklahoma.
Students grow up in undereducated homes with few books, newspapers, and literature.
Ninety-two percent of the cases in Adair County receiving assistance through the Department of Human Services are single parent families. Project Overview Maryetta School believes in the importance of teaching the whole child. Traditional classroom instruction integrated with traditional character values is the educational goal of the district. For this reason, Maryetta will implement a multifaceted character education program. Because the community must be an integral part of this program in order to better insure success, several activities will be included in the plan to involve cooperative efforts between school and community.