CHEROKEE ES

CHEROKEE ES is a low-enrollment elementary school in Cherokee, Oklahoma, one of the schools within CHEROKEE. The school works with 172 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 53% leaner than the typical public school in Oklahoma, which averages around 366 students.

CHEROKEE comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 384 students; CHEROKEE ES is among them.

On the student-mix side, CHEROKEE ES lists that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. Compared to Alfalfa County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 53% of students at CHEROKEE 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, CHEROKEE ES tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.9%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Alfalfa County) records that median household income runs about $64,615, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Alfalfa County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 841 students), CHEROKEE ES is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CHEROKEE HS, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around CHEROKEE ES. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CHEROKEE ES at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 37.5%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 23%: 224 students in 2018 compared to 172 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share expanded from 78% to 84%.

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