AFTON ES
School pathway
Test scores
OSTP / CCRA 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedWhat this means: On the OSTP / CCRA, Oklahoma's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oklahoma schools, those numbers are about 31 and 33.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 29% typical for Oklahoma schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Oklahoma's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About AFTON ES
AFTON ES is a close-knit elementary-level community in Afton, Oklahoma, operated by AFTON. The school hosts 268 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 366 students per school, that is 27% leaner than typical.
Within AFTON, which oversees 2 schools and 407 students, AFTON ES is one campus in the system.
On demographics, AFTON ES records that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 39% Native American, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Ottawa County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. Roughly 76% of students at AFTON ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, AFTON ES ranks in the top 10% of Oklahoma public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 29.4%; AFTON ES posts 48.4%, +19.0 points above that line.
In the surrounding community, census data for Ottawa County shows median household income runs about $49,947, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, Ottawa County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,356 students), of which AFTON ES is one.
Nearest neighbor: AFTON HS, around 0.1 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts AFTON ES at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 42.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a rural area.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at AFTON ES has declined 29%, going from 379 students in 2018 to 268 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.
On allk12, members of the AFTON ES community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Ottawa County at a glance
View full county profileQuick facts
Related schools
- CLEORA PUBLIC SCHOOLElementary · 167 students
- AFTON HSHigh · 139 students
- AFTON HS0.1 mi · 139
- CLEORA PUBLIC SCHOOL6.8 mi · 167
- FAIRLAND ES7.3 mi · 252
- FAIRLAND MS7.3 mi · 133
- FAIRLAND HS7.3 mi · 166
- BLUEJACKET ES10.0 mi · 93