TINKER ES

TINKER ES, a moderately sized elementary-level community in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, one of the schools within MIDWEST CITY-DEL CITY, hosts 379 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

TINKER ES is one of 19 schools operated by MIDWEST CITY-DEL CITY, a district that works with 12,087 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, TINKER ES reports that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 18% Black, 18% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 57% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, TINKER ES shows 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. The state averages about 15.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 21% of students at TINKER ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Oklahoma County's rate of about 67%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TINKER ES is in the bottom 10% of Oklahoma public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.4%; TINKER ES posts 32.3%, -16.1 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Oklahoma County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,679 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Oklahoma County runs 225 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students), of which TINKER ES is one.

The closest other public school is PARKVIEW ES, roughly 1.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TINKER ES.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TINKER ES has fell 26%, going from 511 students in 2018 to 379 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 30% to 18%. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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