CHEROKEE IMMERSION ES-TAHLEQUAH

CHEROKEE IMMERSION ES-TAHLEQUAH, an one-room-style primary school in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, one of the schools within CHEROKEE IMMERSION CHARTER ES, hosts 112 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 366 students per school, that is 69% leaner than typical.

CHEROKEE IMMERSION CHARTER ES comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 116 students; CHEROKEE IMMERSION ES-TAHLEQUAH is among them.

Demographically, CHEROKEE IMMERSION ES-TAHLEQUAH reports that 89% of students identify as Native American, making the school strongly Native American-majority. The remainder looks like 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, CHEROKEE IMMERSION ES-TAHLEQUAH logs 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CHEROKEE IMMERSION ES-TAHLEQUAH is in the bottom 10% of Oklahoma public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.0%; CHEROKEE IMMERSION ES-TAHLEQUAH posts 0.0%, -33.0 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, Cherokee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $53,218 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Cherokee County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,401 students), CHEROKEE IMMERSION ES-TAHLEQUAH is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Sequoyah High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around CHEROKEE IMMERSION ES-TAHLEQUAH. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CHEROKEE IMMERSION ES-TAHLEQUAH at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 33.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site. CHEROKEE IMMERSION ES-TAHLEQUAH operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 114 students in 2018 compared to 112 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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