Taft Elementary School

Taft Elementary School is a public elementary school run by ENID in Enid, Oklahoma. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 283 students. The typical figure for elementary schools in Oklahoma is about 366 students.

ENID has 15 schools; together they serve 7,381 students.

Taft Elementary School's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 43%. Other students are 31% Hispanic, 13% Pacific Islander, 10% multiracial, and 3% Black. By comparison, Garfield County residents are about 73% White. Taft Elementary School has a diversity index of 69%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.

The school reports 16.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 17.3 students per teacher. For comparison, elementary schools in Oklahoma average 15.6:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 87% of students. It compares with 72% for public schools in Garfield County.

Across Garfield County, median household income is about $66,182, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 23%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Garfield County number 34 and enroll about 10,724.

The next-closest public school is Enid High School, about 0.5 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.

NCES lists the school's locale as City: Small. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

The school's size has been steady, with 279 students in 2020-21 and 283 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 17.3:1, from 15.5:1.

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