TURKEY FORD PUBLIC SCHOOL

TURKEY FORD PUBLIC SCHOOL operates as a very small elementary campus in Wyandotte, Oklahoma, part of TURKEY FORD. Current enrollment sits at 104 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Oklahoma's public schools average about 366 students each, so TURKEY FORD PUBLIC SCHOOL sits 72% leaner than that benchmark.

TURKEY FORD is the operating authority for TURKEY FORD PUBLIC SCHOOL, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, TURKEY FORD PUBLIC SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 25% Native American, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. Compared to Ottawa County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, TURKEY FORD PUBLIC SCHOOL records 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Ottawa County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TURKEY FORD PUBLIC SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.6%, the actual is 33.0%, a residual of +9.4 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Ottawa County put the typical household earns roughly $49,947 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. TURKEY FORD PUBLIC SCHOOL is one of 21 public schools in Ottawa County (combined enrollment of about 5,356 students).

GROVE HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.2 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TURKEY FORD PUBLIC SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.1%.

TURKEY FORD PUBLIC SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 3%: 107 students in 2018 compared to 104 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share climbed from 48% to 63%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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