Enrollment Trends at Oglala Lakota

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,282 where 1,188 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

95.88% of total students is undergraduate students and 4.12% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 181 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 3 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 2.31 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in Oglala Lakota than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Oglala Lakota College since 2015.

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• By Level Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,366	1,320	441	879	46	9	37
2016-17	1,301 -65	1,262 -58	413 -28	849 -30	39 -7	14 5	25 -12
2017-18	1,246 -55	1,216 -46	409 -4	807 -42	30 -9	10 -4	20 -5
2018-19	1,300 54	1,263 47	414 5	849 42	37 7	13 3	24 4
2019-20	1,306 6	1,280 17	429 15	851 2	26 -11	12 -1	14 -10
2020-21	1,251 -55	1,222 -58	331 -98	891 40	29 3	8 -4	21 7
2021-22	1,451 200	1,414 192	404 73	1,010 119	37 8	13 5	24 3
2022-23	1,177 -274	1,147 -267	336 -68	811 -199	30 -7	7 -6	23 -1
2023-24	1,229 52	1,180 33	328 -8	852 41	49 19	16 9	33 10
2024-25	1,188 -41	1,139 -41	342 14	797 -55	49	17 1	32 -1
Average	1,282	1,244	385	860	37	12	25

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,244 where 1,139 students are attending the Undergraduate school for the academic year 2024-2025. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Undergraduate enrollment by attending status and gender at Oglala Lakota College since 2015.

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• By Gender Chart
• By Status Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,320	801	307	494	519	134	385
2016-17	1,262	771	280	491	491	133	358
2017-18	1,216	715	261	454	501	148	353
2018-19	1,263	721	264	457	542	150	392
2019-20	1,280	706	259	447	574	170	404
2020-21	1,222	637	181	456	585	150	435
2021-22	1,414	628	191	437	786	213	573
2022-23	1,147	486	164	322	661	172	489
2023-24	1,180	512	154	358	668	174	494
2024-25	1,139	426	146	280	713	196	517
Average	1,244	1,244	221	420	1,244	164	440

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 37 where 49 students are attending the Graduate school for the academic year 2024-2025. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Graduate enrollment by attending status and gender at Oglala Lakota College since 2015.

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• By Gender Chart
• By Status Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	46	5	1	4	41	8	33
2016-17	39	3	0	3	36	14	22
2017-18	30	2	0	2	28	10	18
2018-19	37	0	0	0	37	13	24
2019-20	26	0	0	0	26	12	14
2020-21	29	0	0	0	29	8	21
2021-22	37	0	0	0	37	13	24
2022-23	30	0	0	0	30	7	23
2023-24	49	0	0	0	49	16	33
2024-25	49	10	4	6	39	13	26
Average	37	37	1	2	37	11	24

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 2.10% and the percentage of black students is 0.17% at Oglala Lakota College. 0.76% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 0.25% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 3.15% to 2.10%. Asian enrollment grew from 0.00% to 0.76%. Black student enrollment increased from 0.15% to 0.17%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 1.83% to 0.25%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.0786 which indicates that not very diverse. This decreased from 0.1124 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has declined.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Oglala Lakota College over the past 11 years (2015-2025).

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Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
	2015-16	1,286	0	2	25	2	43	1
2016-17	1,239	0	5	5	0	43	5
2017-18	1,179	3	3	9	0	44	6
2018-19	1,225	0	3	5	3	56	6
2019-20	1,243	1	2	9	0	46	4
2020-21	1,201	0	2	7	0	39	2
2021-22	1,381	0	2	6	1	47	14
2022-23	1,132	3	2	7	0	21	12
2023-24	1,182	2	0	6	0	29	10
2024-25	1,140	9	2	3	0	25	9
Average	1,221	2	2	8	1	39	7