PIONEER PARK ES

As a medium-sized elementary campus in Lawton, Oklahoma, PIONEER PARK ES hosts 318 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by LAWTON.

LAWTON runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 13,642 students. PIONEER PARK ES is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, PIONEER PARK ES logs that the largest single group is White at 31%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 23% Hispanic, 22% multiracial, 16% Black, 6% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 58% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, PIONEER PARK ES has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 78% of students at PIONEER PARK ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Comanche County's rate of about 67%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Comanche County put median household income runs about $60,761, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Comanche County's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,786 students), PIONEER PARK ES is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: FREEDOM ES, around 1.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. PIONEER PARK ES's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 390 (now 318). Over the same period, the White share declined from 42% to 31%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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