The top reported proficiency rate is 12% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Art Goad Es
Art Goad Elementary School serves students from Pre-K through grade five in Chelsea, a small town about an hour northeast of Tulsa. The town sits at the junction of State Highways 28 and 66 and has maintained a stable population for several decades. Its economy has traditionally rested on farming, ranching, and oil production. The school building is at 117 Ash Street in Chelsea, and it is part of the Chelsea school district.
Art Goad is a school with a student body that is racially and ethnically diverse. The largest group of students identifies as two or more races, followed closely by white students, and then by American Indian or Alaska Native students. Smaller shares of students are Hispanic, Asian, and Black. The school enrolls just under 400 students across its grade span. It is not a charter school, and its magnet and Title I status were not available for this account. Free or reduced-price meal data was also not available, so the family income profile of the student body is not directly reported here. The school does not serve high school grades, so it has no graduation rate to report. Data on special education and English learner populations was not provided.
On the state's OSTP assessments, the picture is one of low tested proficiency. In fourth grade math, about one in five students scored at the proficient level or above. In fifth grade math, fewer than one in ten students did so. In English language arts, the share of students reaching proficiency was in the low teens for third, fourth, and fifth grades. Third grade ELA proficiency was just above one in ten, fourth grade was one in ten, and fifth grade was about one in eight. Science results for fifth grade were suppressed by the state, so they could not be reviewed. This pattern places Art Goad's overall proficiency, averaged across all tested subjects and grades, in the bottom quartile when compared with other districts in Rogers County. The comparison set includes ten districts in the county, and Art Goad sits at the low end of that range. State testing cut scores changed recently for math and ELA, which makes year-over-year trend comparisons uncertain. The data available is for a single year, so there is no multi-year trend to examine.
The school's environment is typical of a small rural elementary school. It is the only elementary school in the Chelsea district and feeds into the district's middle and high school. No formal walkability scores were found for the town, and the built environment is modest. The housing market in the area shows a home value estimate around the middle of the range for Oklahoma, at roughly the state median. Mortgage rates nationally were elevated at the time of this data, and the unemployment rate was just above four percent nationally.
Because this school serves only elementary grades, certain measures that families often look for in middle or high schools do not apply. There is no graduation rate because the school does not have a graduating cohort. Course access data was not available. Discipline data was not reported. Staffing ratios and chronic absenteeism figures were also missing. No recent district-level changes that would directly affect a parent at Art Goad were found in publicly reported sources. The district appears to have been stable in terms of leadership and operations, with no referendums, curriculum shifts, or boundary adjustments documented in the search.
For a family considering Art Goad, the main takeaway is that this is a small-town elementary school serving a diverse student population, where academic proficiency on state tests is low relative to other districts in the county. A parent who wants to understand how the school is addressing this pattern would need to talk with the school or district directly, as the data does not show the steps being taken, the resources available, or the classroom context. The school sits in a community that has not grown much, with a rural character and a history tied to agriculture and energy.
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