Scissortail Elementary School

Scissortail Elementary School is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in OKC, Oklahoma, one of the schools within EDMOND, with 353 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Within EDMOND, which oversees 28 schools and 25,746 students, Scissortail Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Scissortail Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Black at 31%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% White, 20% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 8% Asian. By comparison, Oklahoma County as a whole is about 14% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Scissortail Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.5%, the actual is 39.8%, a residual of +5.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, Oklahoma County reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,679 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Oklahoma County runs 225 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students), of which Scissortail Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is SUMMIT MS, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Scissortail Elementary School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.