CENTRAL OAK ES

CENTRAL OAK ES is a high-enrollment K-5 school in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, one of the schools within CROOKED OAK. The school serves 576 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Oklahoma's public schools average about 366 students each, so CENTRAL OAK ES sits 57% bigger than that benchmark.

CROOKED OAK runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,244 students. CENTRAL OAK ES is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, CENTRAL OAK ES records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 15% Black, 10% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 20% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, CENTRAL OAK ES reports 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Oklahoma County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CENTRAL OAK ES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.1%, the actual is 30.0%, a residual of +2.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Oklahoma County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,679 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Oklahoma County's 225 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students), CENTRAL OAK ES is one campus in the mix.

CROOKED OAK HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 573 students in 2018 compared to 576 in 2025.

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