Wiley Post Elementary School

Wiley Post Elementary School is a high-enrollment elementary school in Oklahoma, located in Oklahoma City. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 678 students in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in Oklahoma enroll around 366, and this school is 85% above that mark.

PUTNAM CITY is the local district for Wiley Post Elementary School. It runs 26 schools with 18,836 students.

No group is above 50% at Wiley Post Elementary School; the largest is Black, at 39%. Other reported shares: 21% White, 20% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, and 8% Asian. Oklahoma County's residents are about 14% Black, 24 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Wiley Post Elementary School scores 75%.

The school's 34.2 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.8:1. Elementary schools in Oklahoma have an average ratio of 15.6:1. At Wiley Post Elementary School, 82% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is higher than the 67% average for public schools in Oklahoma County.

For Oklahoma County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $66,679 a year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Oklahoma County number 225, with about 161,569 students.

Wiley Post Elementary School is about 1.0 miles from Hefner Middle School, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose 26%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 16.4:1 in 2020-21, and 19.8:1 in 2024-25.

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