WHITEBEAD PUBLIC SCHOOL

As a close-knit primary school in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, WHITEBEAD PUBLIC SCHOOL teaches 294 students from grades pre-K through 8, operated by WHITEBEAD.

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

In terms of who attends, WHITEBEAD PUBLIC SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 39% White, 10% multiracial, 9% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 10% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, WHITEBEAD PUBLIC SCHOOL reports 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WHITEBEAD PUBLIC SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.1%, the actual is 35.6%, a residual of +2.5 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Garvin County put the typical household earns roughly $58,556 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Garvin County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,065 students), of which WHITEBEAD PUBLIC SCHOOL is one.

Pauls Valley Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around WHITEBEAD PUBLIC SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, WHITEBEAD PUBLIC SCHOOL comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.8%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. WHITEBEAD PUBLIC SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 25% since 2018, when it stood at 393 (now 294). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 35% to 41% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.