EPPERLY HEIGHTS ES

EPPERLY HEIGHTS ES is one of the heavily attended primary schools in Del City, Oklahoma, part of MIDWEST CITY-DEL CITY, with 651 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 78% bigger than the typical public school in Oklahoma, which averages around 366 students.

MIDWEST CITY-DEL CITY comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 12,087 students; EPPERLY HEIGHTS ES is among them.

Looking at the student body, EPPERLY HEIGHTS ES records that 31% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 23% Hispanic, 22% White, 21% multiracial, 3% Native American. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.7:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 74% of students at EPPERLY HEIGHTS ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Oklahoma County put the typical household earns roughly $66,679 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Oklahoma County runs 225 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students), of which EPPERLY HEIGHTS ES is one.

DEL CITY HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EPPERLY HEIGHTS ES.

EPPERLY HEIGHTS ES operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 646 students in 2018 compared to 651 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 34% to 22% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 in 2025.

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