GROVE VALLEY ES

GROVE VALLEY ES is a moderately sized primary school in Edmond, Oklahoma, one of the schools within DEER CREEK. The school hosts 541 students in grades pre-K through 3. By comparison, Oklahoma's public schools average about 366 students each, so GROVE VALLEY ES sits 48% larger than that benchmark.

DEER CREEK comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 8,156 students; GROVE VALLEY ES is among them.

Demographically, GROVE VALLEY ES lists that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 13% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 7% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, GROVE VALLEY ES has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. The state averages about 15.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 26% of students at GROVE VALLEY ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Oklahoma County's rate of about 67%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GROVE VALLEY ES sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.6%; this one delivers 45.0%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Oklahoma County indicate median household income runs about $66,679, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Oklahoma County's 225 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students), GROVE VALLEY ES is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: 4TH AND 5TH GRADE CENTER, around 1.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GROVE VALLEY ES. On composite proficiency, GROVE VALLEY ES comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 591 students in 2018 compared to 541 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 54% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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