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If you could change one rule at RIDGECREST ES, what would it be?
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Enrollment
456
Elementary
DISTRICT 401 · STATE 366
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAWTON·NCES 401725000814
Ridgecrest Elementary School
1614 Northwest 47th Street, Lawton, OK 73505 · (580) 355-6033 · Comanche County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL456 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 11% of Oklahoma public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Oklahoma public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 15.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
416 students
DISTRICT 81% · STATE 68%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 1 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
78%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 77% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
OSTP / CCRA 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
19.0%
OK avg 30.6%
Math
19.0%
OK avg 32.6%
What this means: On the OSTP / CCRA, Oklahoma's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oklahoma schools, those numbers are about 31 and 33.
Source: OSTP / CCRA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
19.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.3%
based on OK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% typical for Oklahoma schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oklahoma's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ridgecrest Elementary School
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ridgecrest Elementary School this school | 456 | 91.2% | 19.0% |
| Clinton West Elementary School TUlsa | 353 | 90.1% | N/A |
| Central Elementary School Idabel | 347 | 90.5% | 28.5% |
| Edison Elementary School Lawton | 437 | 89.2% | N/A |
| Pat Henry Elementary School Lawton | 525 | 93.0% | N/A |
| Kennedy Elementary School Norman | 478 | 88.3% | N/A |
Matched among Oklahoma elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ridgecrest Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oklahoma | In Comanche County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #509 of 555 | #13 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #567 of 651 | #16 of 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #461 of 523 | #11 of 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 456 | #251 of 941 | #7 of 27 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #569 of 708 | #15 of 22 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.8% | #13 of 708 | #2 of 22 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.2% | #113 of 876 | #4 of 26 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.6% | #421 of 548 | #11 of 16 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
456
+160 (+54%) vs 2020
+85% since 1990-91, when it was 246
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 12.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 456 | 25.9 | 17.6:1 | 91% (416) |
| 2023-24 | 444 | 23.2 | 19.1:1 | 94% (419) |
| 2022-23 | 453 | 26.2 | 17.3:1 | 84% (382) |
| 2020-21 | 296 | 24 | 12.3:1 | 81% (239) |
| 2017-18 | 488 | 32 | 15.3:1 | 87% (424) |
| 2015-16 | 520 | 31 | 16.8:1 | 89% (464) |
| 2010-11 | 378 | 28 | 13.5:1 | 78% (294) |
| 2000-01 | 283 | 15 | 18.9:1 | 74% (209) |
| 1990-91 | 246 | 16 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ridgecrest Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (488 to 456); teachers down 19% (32 to 25.9).
About Ridgecrest Elementary School
Ridgecrest Elementary School is an elementary school in Lawton, Oklahoma, and it is part of LAWTON. The school has 456 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5. The school is 25% larger than the average for elementary schools in Oklahoma.
Ridgecrest Elementary School is one school in a 23-school district, LAWTON, which enrolls 13,642 students.
The student body at Ridgecrest Elementary School has no majority group. White students lead at 28%. The remaining shares are 23% Black, 22% Hispanic, 20% multiracial, and 4% Native American. Comanche County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school's share is lower. A diversity index of 78% means there is a 78% chance two randomly chosen students at Ridgecrest Elementary School are from different groups.
For every teacher at Ridgecrest Elementary School, there are about 17.6 students; the school has 25.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 15.6:1 average for elementary schools in Oklahoma, this school's ratio is higher. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 91%. The average for public schools in Comanche County is 67%.
Ridgecrest Elementary School earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 11% of Oklahoma public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Ridgecrest Elementary School is -5.3 points: 19.0% actual, 24.3% predicted.
In the wider Comanche County area, median household income comes to about $60,761, roughly 24% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Comanche County's 44 public schools enroll about 20,786 students and include Ridgecrest Elementary School.
Learning Tree Academy is about 0.6 miles from Ridgecrest Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Ridgecrest Elementary School places 3rd of 4 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Federal data place Ridgecrest Elementary School in the City: Small locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Federal records list enrollment at Ridgecrest Elementary School as 296 in 2020-21 and 456 in 2024-25. A change that size can reflect a shift in the grades the school serves as well as a change in students. The ratio was 12.3:1 in 2020-21 and 17.6:1 in 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Ridgecrest Elementary School. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Comanche County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
121,825
Census ACS
Median income
$60,761
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
44
20,786 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LAWTON
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 1,466 students
- Macarthur High SchoolHigh · 1,253 students
- Freedom Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,251 students
- Lawton High SchoolHigh · 1,243 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,087 students
- Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 955 students
Other schools in Lawton
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 1,466 students
- Macarthur High SchoolHigh · 1,253 students
- Freedom Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,251 students
- Lawton High SchoolHigh · 1,243 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,087 students
- Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 955 students
Other Ridgecrest Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 6 states are named Ridgecrest Elementary. Ridgecrest Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 10.
- Ridgecrest Elementary SchoolMidwest City, OK · 273 students
- Ridgecrest Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 836 students
- Ridgecrest Elementary SchoolPhenix City, AL · 722 students
- Ridgecrest ElementaryHyattsville, MD · 631 students
- Ridgecrest Elementary SchoolHuntsville, AL · 463 students
Nearby schools
- Learning Tree Academy0.6 mi · 547
- Hugh Bish Elementary School0.8 mi · 276
- Crosby Park Elementary School1.0 mi · 284
- Edison Elementary School1.3 mi · 437
- Eisenhower Middle School1.6 mi · 1,087
- Eisenhower High School1.6 mi · 1,466
Frequently asked questions
About Ridgecrest Elementary SchoolHow large is Ridgecrest Elementary School?
Ridgecrest Elementary School enrolls approximately 456 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Ridgecrest Elementary School serve?
Ridgecrest Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Ridgecrest Elementary School?
Approximately 17.6:1 students per teacher at Ridgecrest Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Ridgecrest Elementary School?
At Ridgecrest Elementary School, the student body is approximately 28% White, 22% Hispanic, 23% Black, 0% Asian, 20% Two or more.
What district is Ridgecrest Elementary School in?
Ridgecrest Elementary School is part of LAWTON.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.