MONROE ES

MONROE ES operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in Norman, Oklahoma, part of NORMAN. Current enrollment sits at 452 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 23% bigger than the typical public school in Oklahoma, which averages around 366 students.

Within NORMAN, which oversees 25 schools and 16,048 students, MONROE ES is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, MONROE ES shows that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 7% Black, 5% Native American. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

On the income-and-resources front, MONROE ES shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. Roughly 54% of students at MONROE ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, MONROE ES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.2%, the actual is 35.5%, a residual of -1.7 points.

In the broader community, census data for Cleveland County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,068 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Cleveland County's 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,218 students), MONROE ES is one campus in the mix.

WHITTIER MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MONROE ES at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 40.7%.

MONROE ES operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 6%: 481 students in 2018 compared to 452 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 61% to 52% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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