THOMAS JEFFERSON ES

As a well-populated elementary school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, THOMAS JEFFERSON ES teaches 574 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within UNION. By comparison, Oklahoma's public schools average about 366 students each, so THOMAS JEFFERSON ES sits 57% bigger than that benchmark.

UNION comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 14,950 students; THOMAS JEFFERSON ES is among them.

Looking at the student body, THOMAS JEFFERSON ES reports that the most-represented group is Black (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 23% Hispanic, 18% White, 15% multiracial, 8% Asian. By comparison, Tulsa County as a whole is about 10% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, THOMAS JEFFERSON ES lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting THOMAS JEFFERSON ES higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 85% of students at THOMAS JEFFERSON ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Tulsa County (around 62%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), THOMAS JEFFERSON ES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.3%, the actual is 29.9%, a residual of +3.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Tulsa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,009 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. THOMAS JEFFERSON ES is one of 180 public schools in Tulsa County (combined enrollment of about 113,616 students).

UNION HS FRESHMAN ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around THOMAS JEFFERSON ES. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts THOMAS JEFFERSON ES at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 37.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 5%: 545 students in 2018 compared to 574 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment grew from 20% to 33% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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