DEER CREEK ES

DEER CREEK ES operates as a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Edmond, Oklahoma, one of the schools within DEER CREEK. Current enrollment sits at 483 students spanning grades pre-K through 3. By comparison, Oklahoma's public schools average about 366 students each, so DEER CREEK ES sits 32% larger than that benchmark.

DEER CREEK ES is one of 9 schools operated by DEER CREEK, a district that serves 8,156 students overall.

Looking at the student body, DEER CREEK ES shows that 50% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 16% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 7% Black.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 32% of students at DEER CREEK ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Oklahoma County's rate of about 67%.

With demographic context factored in, DEER CREEK ES sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.7%; this one delivers 45.0%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Oklahoma County) logs that median household earnings sit near $66,679, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Oklahoma County runs 225 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students), of which DEER CREEK ES is one.

SPRING CREEK ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DEER CREEK ES. On composite proficiency, DEER CREEK ES comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 20%: 404 students in 2018 compared to 483 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 50% across the same window.

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