WILL ROGERS ES

WILL ROGERS ES is one of the moderately sized elementary campuss in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, part of PUTNAM CITY, with 362 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

PUTNAM CITY runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 18,836 students. WILL ROGERS ES is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, WILL ROGERS ES logs that the largest single group is Black at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 28% White, 17% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 2% Asian. By comparison, Oklahoma County as a whole is about 14% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, WILL ROGERS ES has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, WILL ROGERS ES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.0%, the actual is 30.5%, a residual of -0.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Oklahoma County indicate median household income runs about $66,679, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. WILL ROGERS ES is one of 225 public schools in Oklahoma County (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students).

Nearest neighbor: RALPH DOWNS ES, around 1.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WILL ROGERS ES ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.0%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILL ROGERS ES has edged down 21%, going from 458 students in 2018 to 362 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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