GRAND AVENUE ES

GRAND AVENUE ES is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary schools in Chickasha, Oklahoma, one of the schools within CHICKASHA, with 475 students on its rolls from grades 2 through 4. Compared to the state average of about 366 students per school, that is 30% above typical.

CHICKASHA comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,225 students; GRAND AVENUE ES is among them.

On the student-mix side, GRAND AVENUE ES logs that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 20% multiracial, 14% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% Native American. By comparison, Grady County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Grady County (around 55%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GRAND AVENUE ES sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.9%; this one delivers 38.9%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Grady County) logs that median household income runs about $75,419, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Grady County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,669 students), of which GRAND AVENUE ES is one.

BILL WALLACE EC CTR is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around GRAND AVENUE ES. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GRAND AVENUE ES ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 40.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Over the past 7-year window. GRAND AVENUE ES's enrollment has fell 9% since 2018, when it stood at 524 (now 475). White enrollment moved from 61% to 56% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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