SANTA FE SOUTH SHIDLER ES

SANTA FE SOUTH SHIDLER ES is a compact elementary-level community in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, operated by SANTA FE SOUTH CHARTER. The school hosts 308 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

Looking at the student body, SANTA FE SOUTH SHIDLER ES records that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 4% Black. By comparison, Oklahoma County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, SANTA FE SOUTH SHIDLER ES has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. Roughly 98% of students at SANTA FE SOUTH SHIDLER ES qualify 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, SANTA FE SOUTH SHIDLER ES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.1%, the actual is 13.0%, a residual of -9.1 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Oklahoma County put the typical household earns roughly $66,679 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. SANTA FE SOUTH SHIDLER ES is one of 225 public schools in Oklahoma County (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students).

Nearest neighbor: WHEELER MS, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. As a public charter, SANTA FE SOUTH SHIDLER ES runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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