LAKE PARK ES

LAKE PARK ES operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in Bethany, Oklahoma, one of the schools within PUTNAM CITY. Current enrollment sits at 335 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

LAKE PARK ES is one of 26 schools operated by PUTNAM CITY, a district that teaches 18,836 students overall.

On the student-mix side, LAKE PARK ES logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 26% White, 11% multiracial, 8% Black, 2% Native American. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Oklahoma County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LAKE PARK ES tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.0%.

Across the wider county, Oklahoma County reports that 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. Across Oklahoma County's 225 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students), LAKE PARK ES is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: OVERHOLSER ES, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LAKE PARK ES at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 42.0%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 6%: 355 students in 2018 compared to 335 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 26% to 52% over that span.

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