CARRIAGE HILLS ES

CARRIAGE HILLS ES is a primary school of cozy scale in Lawton, Oklahoma, one of the schools within LAWTON, caters to 294 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 23 schools in LAWTON (13,642 students total), CARRIAGE HILLS ES accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CARRIAGE HILLS ES reports that the most-represented group is White (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 24% Hispanic, 20% multiracial, 16% Black, 2% Native American. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, CARRIAGE HILLS ES has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. The state averages about 15.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 83% of students at CARRIAGE HILLS ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Comanche County's rate of about 67%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CARRIAGE HILLS ES tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Comanche County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,761 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Comanche County runs 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,786 students), of which CARRIAGE HILLS ES is one.

SULLIVAN VILLAGE ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CARRIAGE HILLS ES ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 30.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 15%: 346 students in 2018 compared to 294 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 16% to 24%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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