Per the statute governing the Oklahoma Equal Opportunity Education Scholarship Act, an eligible scholarship recipient must:

• Be a legal resident of the United States, live in Oklahoma, and have been accepted by an accredited Oklahoma private school for the current school year.
• Be between three (3) and twenty-one (21) years of age enrolled in an Participating School
• Be a member of a household with an annual income (Adjusted Gross Income — AGI) of 300% or less of the amount required to qualify for the federal free or reduced meal program (Less than 555% of the Federal poverty level).
• must meet ONE of the following three criteria: Live in a family within the Adjusted Gross Income guidelines OR; attend, or live in the attendance zone, of a public school designated as “in need of improvement” by the State Board of Education OR; attended an Oklahoma public school with an individualized education program (IEP).

Note: For the current school year, the Scholarship Act allows an eligible student to receive up to $7,940 annually. This is 80% of the statewide annual average expenditure per pupil of $9,927. A 2025-26 goal is that 64% of funds go to “low income” students, those eligible for free or reduced lunch.

In order to approve an SGO Scholarship, OISF requires that each applicant indicate the number of individuals living in their household and provide evidence that the household income meets the thresholds. For this reason, Participating Schools collect the income verification documentation and forward it to OISF for review.

Please note that if your school utilizes the services of a third-party vendor to collect and manage household income documentation for the purposes of evaluating financial aid, then you will not be required to resubmit documentation to OISF unless the third-party has not received or verified your submission.