VAN BUREN ES

VAN BUREN ES, a mid-sized primary school in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, one of the schools within OKLAHOMA CITY, caters to 320 students, covering grades pre-K through 4.

OKLAHOMA CITY comprises 58 schools with combined enrollment of 32,864 students; VAN BUREN ES is among them.

On demographics, VAN BUREN ES records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%). Other groups include 6% Black, 4% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 20% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting VAN BUREN ES tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 98% of students at VAN BUREN ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Oklahoma County's rate of about 67%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Oklahoma County put the typical household earns roughly $66,679 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Oklahoma County runs 225 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students), of which VAN BUREN ES is one.

ESPERANZA ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around VAN BUREN ES.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at VAN BUREN ES has shrank 10%, going from 355 students in 2018 to 320 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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