TOWNSEND ES

TOWNSEND ES is an elementary-level community of mid-sized scale in Del City, Oklahoma, one of the schools within MIDWEST CITY-DEL CITY, hosting 433 students in grades pre-K through 5.

MIDWEST CITY-DEL CITY comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 12,087 students; TOWNSEND ES is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, TOWNSEND ES logs that the largest single group is Black at 28%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 27% White, 26% Hispanic, 16% multiracial. By comparison, Oklahoma County as a whole is about 14% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, TOWNSEND ES records 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 62% of students at TOWNSEND ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Oklahoma County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,679 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 TOWNSEND ES is one.

Nearest neighbor: DEL CITY ES, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

TOWNSEND ES operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TOWNSEND ES has grew 6%, going from 407 students in 2018 to 433 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 14% to 26% over that span.

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