CORDELL ES

CORDELL ES, a mid-tier K-5 school in Cordell, Oklahoma, run under CORDELL, caters to 364 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.

CORDELL runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 615 students. CORDELL ES is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, CORDELL ES logs that 72% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 13% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 2% Native American. By comparison, Washita County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Washita County's rate of about 59%.

After controlling for student poverty, CORDELL ES tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.9%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Washita County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $63,501 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Washita County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,806 students), CORDELL ES is one campus in the mix.

CORDELL HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around CORDELL ES. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CORDELL ES ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 28.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CORDELL ES has shrank 7%, going from 392 students in 2018 to 364 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 72% across the same window.

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