Puterbaugh Upper Elementary

Puterbaugh Upper Elementary is an elementary campus of mid-sized scale in McAlester, Oklahoma, one of the schools within MCALESTER, enrolling 378 students in grades 3 through 4.

MCALESTER runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,008 students. Puterbaugh Upper Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Puterbaugh Upper Elementary lists that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 17% Hispanic, 17% multiracial, 17% Native American, 5% Black. By comparison, Pittsburg County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Puterbaugh Upper Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.5%; this one delivers 22.5%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Pittsburg County put the typical household earns roughly $55,310 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Pittsburg County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,341 students), Puterbaugh Upper Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WILL ROGERS ES, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Puterbaugh Upper Elementary. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Puterbaugh Upper Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.1%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

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