LEARNING TREE ACADEMY

LEARNING TREE ACADEMY is an elementary campus of medium-sized scale in Lawton, Oklahoma, one of the schools within LAWTON, enrolling 547 students in grade pre-K. By comparison, Oklahoma's public schools average about 366 students each, so LEARNING TREE ACADEMY sits 49% bigger than that benchmark.

LAWTON runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 13,642 students. LEARNING TREE ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, LEARNING TREE ACADEMY lists that 29% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 29% White, 20% Black, 18% multiracial, 3% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 15% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, LEARNING TREE ACADEMY shows 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.0:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 79% of students at LEARNING TREE ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Comanche County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Comanche County reports that median household earnings sit near $60,761, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Comanche County's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,786 students), LEARNING TREE ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: RIDGECREST ES, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LEARNING TREE ACADEMY has expanded 132%, going from 236 students in 2018 to 547 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 16% to 29% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.

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