WARD ES EAST

Located at 407 E Ward Rd, in Colbert, Oklahoma, WARD ES EAST is a tight-knit intermediate school that works with 165 students (grades 4 through 6), operated by COLBERT. Compared to the state average of about 388 students per school, that is 57% below typical.

COLBERT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 837 students. WARD ES EAST is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WARD ES EAST shows that 58% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 16% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, 10% Native American, 2% Black. By comparison, Bryan County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, WARD ES EAST has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. The state averages around 15.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Bryan County's rate of about 68%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WARD ES EAST ranks in the top 10% of Oklahoma public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 26.7%; WARD ES EAST posts 41.0%, +14.3 points above that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Bryan County) reports that median household income runs about $57,225, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Bryan County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,443 students), WARD ES EAST is one campus in the mix.

WARD ES WEST is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WARD ES EAST comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WARD ES EAST has ticked up 4%, going from 159 students in 2018 to 165 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 48% to 58% across the same window.

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