EASTSIDE ES
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Test scores
OSTP / CCRA 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedWhat this means: On the OSTP / CCRA, Oklahoma's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oklahoma schools, those numbers are about 31 and 33.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% typical for Oklahoma schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oklahoma's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About EASTSIDE ES
EASTSIDE ES is a mid-sized elementary school in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, one of the schools within SALLISAW. The school works with 345 students in grades 3 through 5.
SALLISAW comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,919 students; EASTSIDE ES is among them.
Looking at the student body, EASTSIDE ES lists that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 32% Native American, 14% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 2% Black. By comparison, Sequoyah County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, EASTSIDE ES has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, EASTSIDE ES sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.5%; this one delivers 36.3%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Sequoyah County indicate median household income runs about $51,093, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. EASTSIDE ES is one of 25 public schools in Sequoyah County (combined enrollment of about 7,452 students).
Nearest neighbor: LIBERTY ES, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, EASTSIDE ES comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.
Five-year trend. EASTSIDE ES's enrollment has decreased 22% since 2018, when it stood at 440 (now 345). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.
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