DEWITT WALLER MS

DEWITT WALLER MS is a big middle school in Enid, Oklahoma, overseen by ENID. The school caters to 735 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 89% above the state mean of about 388.

Within ENID, which oversees 15 schools and 7,381 students, DEWITT WALLER MS is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, DEWITT WALLER MS reports that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 7% Pacific Islander, 2% Black. By comparison, Garfield County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, DEWITT WALLER MS reports 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.7:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at DEWITT WALLER MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, DEWITT WALLER MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 25.8%, a residual of -6.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Garfield County indicate median household income runs about $66,182, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. DEWITT WALLER MS is one of 34 public schools in Garfield County (combined enrollment of about 10,724 students).

Nearest neighbor: HOOVER ES, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DEWITT WALLER MS. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DEWITT WALLER MS at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 37.7%.

DEWITT WALLER MS operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 750 students in 2018 compared to 735 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 63% to 51% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 in 2025.

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