DENNIS ES

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, DENNIS ES serves 487 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within PUTNAM CITY. Enrollment runs roughly 33% above the state mean of about 366.

PUTNAM CITY comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 18,836 students; DENNIS ES is among them.

On the student-mix side, DENNIS ES shows that 36% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 27% Black, 16% multiracial, 15% Hispanic, 6% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DENNIS ES tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.4%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Oklahoma County put 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. Across Oklahoma County's 225 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students), DENNIS ES is one campus in the mix.

PUTNAM CITY NORTH HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DENNIS ES comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 478 students in 2018 compared to 487 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment edged down from 13% to 6% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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