GORE UPPER ES

GORE UPPER ES, a minimally staffed middle-grades school in Gore, Oklahoma, overseen by GORE, caters to 118 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Oklahoma's public schools average about 388 students each, so GORE UPPER ES sits 70% below that benchmark.

GORE runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 470 students. GORE UPPER ES is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GORE UPPER ES logs that the largest single group is Native American at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 42% White, 8% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.7:1, putting GORE UPPER ES higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Sequoyah County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GORE UPPER ES tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.7%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Sequoyah County) shows that median household income runs about $51,093, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. GORE UPPER ES is one of 25 public schools in Sequoyah County (combined enrollment of about 7,452 students).

Nearest neighbor: GORE HS, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around GORE UPPER ES. On composite proficiency, GORE UPPER ES comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.0%.

GORE UPPER ES operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GORE UPPER ES has edged up 3%, going from 115 students in 2018 to 118 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 10% to 1% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.

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