JOHN REX CHARTER ES

JOHN REX CHARTER ES is one of the big elementary-level communitys in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, one of the schools within JOHN REX CHARTER SCHOOL, with 810 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 121% above the typical public school in Oklahoma, which averages around 366 students.

JOHN REX CHARTER ES is a school of JOHN REX CHARTER SCHOOL, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, JOHN REX CHARTER ES logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 31% White, 14% Black, 14% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, Oklahoma County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.6:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Oklahoma County (around 67%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, JOHN REX CHARTER ES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.1%, the actual is 40.5%, a residual of +0.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Oklahoma County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,679 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. JOHN REX CHARTER ES is one of 225 public schools in Oklahoma County (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students).

EMERSON ALTERNATIVE ED. (MS) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JOHN REX CHARTER ES ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.2%.

JOHN REX CHARTER ES operates from a downtown location. JOHN REX CHARTER ES is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 52%: 532 students in 2018 compared to 810 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 17% to 35% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for JOHN REX CHARTER ES typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.