LANIER ES

LANIER ES is an average-sized elementary school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, part of TULSA. The school instructs 322 students in grades pre-K through 5.

TULSA comprises 69 schools with combined enrollment of 33,617 students; LANIER ES is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LANIER ES logs that the most-represented group is White (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 22% multiracial, 22% Hispanic, 12% Black, 5% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 61% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Tulsa County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LANIER ES sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.3%; this one delivers 42.4%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Tulsa County) records that median household income runs about $69,009, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. LANIER ES is one of 180 public schools in Tulsa County (combined enrollment of about 113,616 students).

Nearest neighbor: MAYO DEMONSTRATION ES, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LANIER ES.

LANIER ES operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 324 students in 2018 compared to 322 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 56% to 37% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

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