SANTA FE SOUTH EARLY CHILDHOOD

Set in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, SANTA FE SOUTH EARLY CHILDHOOD is a low-enrollment elementary-level community, operated by SANTA FE SOUTH CHARTER. It educates 263 students across grades pre-K through 1. Enrollment runs roughly 28% leaner than the state mean of about 366.

Within SANTA FE SOUTH CHARTER, which oversees 10 schools and 4,620 students, SANTA FE SOUTH EARLY CHILDHOOD is one campus in the system.

Demographically, SANTA FE SOUTH EARLY CHILDHOOD records that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Oklahoma County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Oklahoma County's rate of about 67%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Oklahoma County indicate median household income runs about $66,679, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Oklahoma County runs 225 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students), of which SANTA FE SOUTH EARLY CHILDHOOD is one.

Nearest neighbor: U. S. GRANT HS, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SANTA FE SOUTH EARLY CHILDHOOD.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. SANTA FE SOUTH EARLY CHILDHOOD is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 264 students in 2018 compared to 263 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

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