SANTA FE SOUTH PENN ES

SANTA FE SOUTH PENN ES is one of the mid-sized elementary campuss in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, run under SANTA FE SOUTH CHARTER, with 385 students on its rolls from grades 2 through 5.

Across the 10 schools in SANTA FE SOUTH CHARTER (4,620 students total), SANTA FE SOUTH PENN ES accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, SANTA FE SOUTH PENN ES logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). The wider county runs roughly 20% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting SANTA FE SOUTH PENN ES higher than the state norm the norm. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Oklahoma County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, SANTA FE SOUTH PENN ES ranks in the top 10% of Oklahoma public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 22.6%; SANTA FE SOUTH PENN ES posts 42.5%, +20.0 points above that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Oklahoma County indicate median household earnings sit near $66,679, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. SANTA FE SOUTH PENN ES is one of 225 public schools in Oklahoma County (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students).

U. S. GRANT HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SANTA FE SOUTH PENN ES.

SANTA FE SOUTH PENN ES operates from a high-density location. SANTA FE SOUTH PENN ES operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. SANTA FE SOUTH PENN ES's enrollment has ticked up 31% since 2018, when it stood at 294 (now 385). Class-load math has grew: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 in 2025.

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