BARNES ES

BARNES ES is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, overseen by MIDWEST CITY-DEL CITY. The school serves 346 students in grades pre-K through 5.

MIDWEST CITY-DEL CITY runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 12,087 students. BARNES ES is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BARNES ES shows that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 21% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 7% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Oklahoma County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Oklahoma County (around 67%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, BARNES ES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.6%, the actual is 34.1%, a residual of -5.5 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Oklahoma County put median household earnings sit near $66,679, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Oklahoma County runs 225 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students), of which BARNES ES is one.

Nearest neighbor: CARL ALBERT MS, around 2.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BARNES ES comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.2%.

BARNES ES operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BARNES ES has declined 10%, going from 383 students in 2018 to 346 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 70% to 54%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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