PERRY ES

PERRY ES, a sizable elementary school in Perry, Oklahoma, part of PERRY, educates 573 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Oklahoma's public schools average about 366 students each, so PERRY ES sits 57% above that benchmark.

PERRY comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,031 students; PERRY ES is among them.

On demographics, PERRY ES reports that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% multiracial, 8% Native American, 6% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting PERRY ES tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 64% of students at PERRY ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, PERRY ES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.7%, the actual is 45.2%, a residual of +11.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Noble County) reports that median household income runs about $66,365, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Noble County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,048 students), of which PERRY ES is one.

PERRY JHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PERRY ES comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.1%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 14%: 670 students in 2018 compared to 573 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 79% to 73%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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