MARK TWAIN ES

MARK TWAIN ES is one of the low-enrollment K-5 schools in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, part of OKLAHOMA CITY, with 269 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 27% smaller than the typical public school in Oklahoma, which averages around 366 students.

MARK TWAIN ES is one of 58 schools operated by OKLAHOMA CITY, a district that educates 32,864 students overall.

In terms of who attends, MARK TWAIN ES lists that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 12% White, 7% Black, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Oklahoma County's rate of about 67%.

After controlling for student poverty, MARK TWAIN ES sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.6%; this one delivers 27.0%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Oklahoma County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,679 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. MARK TWAIN ES is one of 225 public schools in Oklahoma County (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students).

ASTEC CHARTER ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MARK TWAIN ES comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.5%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARK TWAIN ES has ticked down 17%, going from 325 students in 2018 to 269 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 84% to 73%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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