DICKSON UPPER ES

DICKSON UPPER ES, a cozy elementary school in Ardmore, Oklahoma, overseen by DICKSON, instructs 277 students, covering grades 3 through 5. That puts it 24% below the typical public school in Oklahoma, which averages around 366 students.

DICKSON comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,229 students; DICKSON UPPER ES is among them.

In terms of who attends, DICKSON UPPER ES shows that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 18% multiracial, 16% Native American, 11% Hispanic. By comparison, Carter County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Carter County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DICKSON UPPER ES tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Carter County) shows that median household earnings sit near $60,723, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. DICKSON UPPER ES is one of 28 public schools in Carter County (combined enrollment of about 8,383 students).

Nearest neighbor: DICKSON MS, around 0.0 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DICKSON UPPER ES comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 12.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DICKSON UPPER ES has ticked down 12%, going from 315 students in 2018 to 277 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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