PERKINS-TRYON INTERMEDIATE ES

Located at 1114 E Kirk, in PERKINS, Oklahoma, PERKINS-TRYON INTERMEDIATE ES is a moderately sized primary school that teaches 366 students (grades 3 through 5), operated by PERKINS-TRYON.

PERKINS-TRYON comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,591 students; PERKINS-TRYON INTERMEDIATE ES is among them.

On demographics, PERKINS-TRYON INTERMEDIATE ES lists that 67% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 15% multiracial, 9% Native American, 7% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the resource side, On paper, PERKINS-TRYON INTERMEDIATE ES has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, PERKINS-TRYON INTERMEDIATE ES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.7%, the actual is 44.0%, a residual of +6.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Payne County put median household earnings sit near $49,809, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. PERKINS-TRYON INTERMEDIATE ES is one of 26 public schools in Payne County (combined enrollment of about 10,609 students).

PERKINS-TRYON ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around PERKINS-TRYON INTERMEDIATE ES. On composite proficiency, PERKINS-TRYON INTERMEDIATE ES comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PERKINS-TRYON INTERMEDIATE ES has ticked up 5%, going from 347 students in 2018 to 366 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 73% to 67% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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