Eastside Elementary School

Eastside Elementary School is a public elementary school in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. The school enrolls 345 students, from grades 3 through 5.

SALLISAW has 4 schools; together they serve 1,919 students.

No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Eastside Elementary School. The largest is White students, at 41%. Other students are 32% Native American, 14% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, and 2% Black. That is lower than the 62% White share among all Sequoyah County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 71% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Eastside Elementary School employs 22.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 15.4:1. That matches the 15.6:1 average for elementary schools in Oklahoma fairly closely. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 73% in 2024-25. For comparison, public schools in Sequoyah County average 75%.

On a poverty-adjusted basis, Eastside Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Oklahoma schools: 36.3% actual against 30.5% predicted.

Among Sequoyah County residents, the median household income is $51,093, roughly 15% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. Eastside Elementary School is one of 25 public schools in the county.

The closest public school, Liberty Elementary School, is about 0.1 miles from Eastside Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: 5. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 30.6%; Eastside Elementary School's is 36.3%, ranking 2nd of 4.

In the federal locale system, Eastside Elementary School is coded Town: Distant, for schools in a town some distance from an urbanized area.

Enrollment dropped 4% from its 2020-21 level of 359.

Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Eastside Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.