NORTHWOOD ES

NORTHWOOD ES, a high-enrollment K-5 school in Piedmont, Oklahoma, one of the schools within PIEDMONT, enrolls 552 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 51% larger than the state mean of about 366.

PIEDMONT runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 5,407 students. NORTHWOOD ES is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, NORTHWOOD ES logs that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 16% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 7% Black, 5% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting NORTHWOOD ES higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Canadian County (around 49%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NORTHWOOD ES sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.9%; this one delivers 54.0%.

In the area at large, census data for Canadian County shows the typical household earns roughly $87,751 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. NORTHWOOD ES is one of 49 public schools in Canadian County (combined enrollment of about 32,883 students).

The closest other public school is PIEDMONT INTERMEDIATE ES, roughly 1.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NORTHWOOD ES comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 47.0%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 9%: 507 students in 2018 compared to 552 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 69% to 63% across the same window.

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