FREEDOM ES

As an expansive K-5 school in Lawton, Oklahoma, FREEDOM ES serves 1,251 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under LAWTON. By comparison, Oklahoma's public schools average about 366 students each, so FREEDOM ES sits 242% bigger than that benchmark.

LAWTON runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 13,642 students. FREEDOM ES is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, FREEDOM ES records that 39% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 14% Black, 12% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting FREEDOM ES higher than the state norm the norm. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FREEDOM ES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.9%, the actual is 30.2%, a residual of -2.7 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Comanche County) records that median household income runs about $60,761, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. FREEDOM ES is one of 44 public schools in Comanche County (combined enrollment of about 20,786 students).

PIONEER PARK ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 8%: 1,163 students in 2018 compared to 1,251 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 20% to 31% across the same window.

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