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MIDWEST CITY ES
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MIDWEST CITY ES
MIDWEST CITY ES is a large K-5 school in Midwest City, Oklahoma, one of the schools within MIDWEST CITY-DEL CITY. The school caters to 781 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 113% bigger than the state mean of about 366.
MIDWEST CITY ES is one of 19 schools operated by MIDWEST CITY-DEL CITY, a district that teaches 12,087 students overall.
On the student-mix side, MIDWEST CITY ES logs that 30% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 28% Black, 19% Hispanic, 19% multiracial, 4% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 57% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, MIDWEST CITY ES has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
In the area at large, census data for Oklahoma County shows median household earnings sit near $66,679, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Oklahoma County's 225 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students), MIDWEST CITY ES is one campus in the mix.
MIDWEST CITY HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 10%: 871 students in 2018 compared to 781 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 44% to 30% over that span.
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