ASTEC CHARTER ES

ASTEC CHARTER ES operates as a sprawling K-5 school in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, run under ASTEC CHARTER SCHOOL. Current enrollment sits at 579 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 58% larger than the typical public school in Oklahoma, which averages around 366 students.

ASTEC CHARTER SCHOOL runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,427 students. ASTEC CHARTER ES is one of those campuses.

Demographically, ASTEC CHARTER ES logs that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 5% White, 4% Black. By comparison, Oklahoma County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting ASTEC CHARTER ES higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Oklahoma County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Oklahoma County put median household income runs about $66,679, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ASTEC CHARTER ES is one of 225 public schools in Oklahoma County (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students).

MARK TWAIN ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ASTEC CHARTER ES.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. ASTEC CHARTER ES operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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