PANAMA ES

Located at 1101 Kentucky Ave, in Panama, Oklahoma, PANAMA ES is a reasonably sized elementary school that hosts 414 students (grades pre-K through 6), part of PANAMA.

Within PANAMA, which oversees 3 schools and 744 students, PANAMA ES is one campus in the system.

On demographics, PANAMA ES records that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 37% Native American, 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, PANAMA ES reports 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. The state averages about 15.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Le Flore County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, PANAMA ES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.7%, the actual is 25.4%, a residual of -2.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Le Flore County indicate the typical household earns roughly $51,565 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Le Flore County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,938 students), PANAMA ES is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PANAMA HS, around 0.4 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PANAMA ES at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 11.2%.

PANAMA ES operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 419 students in 2018 compared to 414 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 59% to 52% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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