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GUTHRIE UPPER ES
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Test scores
OSTP / CCRA 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedWhat this means: On the OSTP / CCRA, Oklahoma's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oklahoma schools, those numbers are about 31 and 33.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for Oklahoma schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oklahoma's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About GUTHRIE UPPER ES
Set in Guthrie, Oklahoma, GUTHRIE UPPER ES is a reasonably sized intermediate school, overseen by GUTHRIE. It works with 534 students across grades 5 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 38% above the state mean of about 388.
GUTHRIE runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,483 students. GUTHRIE UPPER ES is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, GUTHRIE UPPER ES records that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 23% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 7% Black, 4% Native American. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.7:1, putting GUTHRIE UPPER ES higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 66% of students at GUTHRIE UPPER ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GUTHRIE UPPER ES sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.8%; this one delivers 20.7%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Logan County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,899 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Logan County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,368 students), of which GUTHRIE UPPER ES is one.
Nearest neighbor: GUTHRIE HS, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The school occupies a town-based site.
Trend over the last 7 years. GUTHRIE UPPER ES's enrollment has decreased 34% since 2018, when it stood at 811 (now 534). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 15% to 23%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.
Inside the community feed, members of the GUTHRIE UPPER ES community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Logan County at a glance
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