Enrollment
112
Elementary
DISTRICT 58 · STATE 366
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHEROKEE IMMERSION CHARTER ES·NCES 400075502720
Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah
16489 Highway 62, Tahlequah, OK 74465 · (918) 207-4900 · Cherokee County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY41-RURALCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL112 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 1% of Oklahoma public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Oklahoma public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
8 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.9:1 · STATE 15.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
74 students
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 68%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 13 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 18 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 18 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 11 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 12 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 6 | 5% |
| Grade 5 | 10 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 13 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 9 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 2 | 2% |
Student demographics
20%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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OSTP / CCRA 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
0.0%
OK avg 30.6%
Math
0.0%
OK avg 32.6%
What this means: On the OSTP / CCRA, Oklahoma's statewide test, about 0 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 0 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oklahoma schools, those numbers are about 31 and 33.
Source: OSTP / CCRA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of OK schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
0.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.0%
based on OK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-33.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 0% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 33% typical for Oklahoma schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah
Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah's state test result (0.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah this school | 112 | 66.1% | 0.0% |
| Leach Public School Rose | 145 | 64.1% | 19.7% |
| Darlington Public School El Reno | 241 | 68.0% | 48.0% |
| Gracemont Elementary School Gracemont | 120 | 71.7% | 0.0% |
| Zion Public School Stilwell | 263 | 66.9% | 29.8% |
| Tenkiller Public School Welling | 157 | 76.4% | N/A |
Matched among Oklahoma elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oklahoma | In Cherokee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 0.0% | #537 of 555 | #11 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 0.0% | #603 of 651 | #9 of 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 0.0% | #477 of 523 | #6 of 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 112 | #861 of 941 | #14 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.1% | #544 of 876 | #15 of 15 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
112
-2 (-2%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 12.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 112 | 8.1 | 13.8:1 | 66% (74) |
| 2023-24 | 105 | 9 | 11.7:1 | 69% (72) |
| 2022-23 | 103 | 8.1 | 12.7:1 | 65% (67) |
| 2020-21 | 114 | 9 | 12.7:1 | 62% (71) |
| 2017-18 | 114 | 10.7 | 10.6:1 | 11% (13) |
| 2015-16 | 106 | 7 | 15.1:1 | 63% (67) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (114 to 112); teachers down 24% (10.7 to 8.1).
About Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah
Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah is an elementary school located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, in Cherokee County. Students in pre-K through 8 attend the school, which enrolls 112 students. The average among elementary schools in Oklahoma is roughly 366 students; this school is 69% smaller than that.
Across its 2 schools, CHEROKEE IMMERSION CHARTER ES enrolls 116 students. Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah is one of those schools.
The large majority of students at Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah, 89%, are Native American. Next come 7% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. The chance that two students picked at random at Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 20%.
The school reports 8.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 13.8 students per teacher. The 15.6:1 average for elementary schools in Oklahoma is higher than this school's figure. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 66%.
Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah is graded F by allk12, scoring above 1% of Oklahoma public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Schools in Oklahoma with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate on state tests near 33.0%. Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah posts 0.0%, 33.0 points below that, which places it in the bottom 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
According to the American Community Survey, in Cherokee County, median household income is about $53,218, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 29% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah is one of 21 public schools in Cherokee County, which together enroll about 7,401 students.
Sequoyah High School is the closest public school, about 0.5 miles away in a straight line. There are 7 more public schools inside five miles. Among the 6 closest schools with test data, this one included, Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah ranks 6th on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Rural: Fringe: the school is in rural territory close to an urban area. The school is classified as a charter school in federal data.
Federal data show 114 students in 2020-21 and 112 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 12.7:1 to 13.8:1.
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Cherokee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
47,942
Census ACS
Median income
$53,218
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
21
7,401 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CHEROKEE IMMERSION CHARTER ES
- Cherokee Immersion Es-GreasyElementary · 4 students
Other schools in Tahlequah
- Tahlequah High SchoolHigh · 1,358 students
- Tahlequah Middle SchoolMiddle · 730 students
- Grand View Public SchoolElementary · 521 students
- Heritage Elementary SchoolElementary · 501 students
- Greenwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 500 students
- Cherokee Elementary SchoolElementary · 441 students
Nearby schools
- Sequoyah High School0.5 mi · 318
- Heritage Elementary School2.6 mi · 501
- Woodall Public School3.2 mi · 373
- Keys Elementary School4.4 mi · 511
- Sequoyah Elementary School4.7 mi · 182
- Keys High School4.8 mi · 258
Frequently asked questions
About Cherokee Immersion Es-TahlequahHow many students attend Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah?
Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah enrolls approximately 112 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah serve?
Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah?
Approximately 13.8:1 students per teacher at Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah?
At Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah, the student body is approximately 7% Hispanic, 4% Two or more.
Is Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah public or private?
Cherokee Immersion Es-Tahlequah is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by CHEROKEE IMMERSION CHARTER ES.
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