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ADAMS ES
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ADAMS ES
Located at 3416 Southwest 37th Street, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, ADAMS ES is an average-sized elementary campus that educates 378 students (grades pre-K through 4), operated by OKLAHOMA CITY.
Across the 58 schools in OKLAHOMA CITY (32,864 students total), ADAMS ES accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, ADAMS ES records that nearly all students (84%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 6% White, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, ADAMS ES has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. The state averages about 15.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Oklahoma County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
In the area at large, Oklahoma County reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,679 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. ADAMS ES is one of 225 public schools in Oklahoma County (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students).
ROOSEVELT MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ADAMS ES.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ADAMS ES has declined 35%, going from 581 students in 2018 to 378 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.
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