Hooker Es, Hooker OK - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Hooker Es

Hooker Elementary School serves students from prekindergarten through eighth grade in the Oklahoma Panhandle town of Hooker, a rural agricultural community in Texas County. The area’s economy has long been anchored by wheat farming and cattle feedlots, with major employers including Hitch Ranch and Pride Feeders Limited, as well as Seaboard Farms’ large hog operations. The town itself, though historically shaped by railroad construction and natural gas development, has seen a modest population decline in recent years. Town leadership describes Hooker as a community with strong rural values and growth potential, and a growing number of locally owned businesses line the main corridor along South Broadway. The school district is a central civic institution here, and Hooker ES occupies that role for the younger grades, with no separate middle school campus since the building serves all students through eighth grade.

The student body reflects the broader community’s demographic character. Enrollment reaches into the several hundreds, with a majority of students identifying as Hispanic and a substantial share identifying as white. A smaller number of students are identified as two or more races, and the remaining racial categories each account for a very small presence. Data on the share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch was not available, nor were counts of students with disabilities or English learners, so a reader cannot assess economic disadvantage or special-population support from the information provided.

State assessment results from the most recent testing year reveal a mixed academic picture, with rates of proficiency that are generally low across tested grades and subjects. In mathematics, the portion of students scoring at the proficient level or above declines sharply after the early elementary years, with especially low rates in the upper elementary and middle school grades. English language arts results follow a similar pattern: while third through fifth grade proficiency rates hover in the low-to-mid range, they drop in the sixth grade and reach a very low point in eighth grade. Science results, available only for fifth grade, show a modest proficiency rate, while eighth-grade science results were suppressed from public reporting. It is worth noting that Oklahoma changed the cut scores for its math and ELA assessments in the most recent year, which means these results are not directly comparable to prior years; a parent may want to ask the school how scores have trended under the old cut scores for context.

When placed against other districts in Texas County, Hooker ES’s overall proficiency index sits above the midpoint of the cohort, but the range is narrow and even the highest district in the county is not far ahead. That puts Hooker ES in the middle of a modest-performing set of rural peers.

The housing market in the Hooker area, based on the ZIP code that covers the town, shows a home value that is notably lower than both the state average and the national average, though values have been rising at a faster clip than those benchmarks in the past year. The national unemployment rate at the time of this data was moderate, and the 30-year fixed mortgage rate was around the mid-six percent range. These factors combine to make Hooker a relatively affordable place to live compared to much of the country, which may appeal to families seeking a lower cost of entry.

No recent changes within the Hooker district surfaced in publicly available records, and the school itself does not appear to have a charter or magnet designation. Information on course access, disciplinary practices, staffing, and chronic absenteeism was missing from the data provided, so a complete picture of the school environment and student support systems is not possible to draw here. For a family considering Hooker ES, the strongest available evidence points to a rural community school where academic proficiency across the board sits at levels that merit a closer conversation with the building leadership about instruction and intervention, particularly in the middle grades.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 333%

School 33% · District 33%

▲ 4 pts above state median

Grade 430%

School 30% · District 30%

even with state median

Grade 510%

School 10% · District 10%

▼ 10 pts below state median

Grade 68%

School 8% · District 8%

▼ 10 pts below state median

Grade 726%

School 26% · District 26%

▲ 6 pts above state median

Grade 88%

School 8% · District 8%

▼ 4 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 323%

School 23% · District 23%

even with state median

Grade 422%

School 22% · District 22%

▲ 4 pts above state median

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 24%

▲ 3 pts above state median

Grade 616%

School 16% · District 16%

▼ 4 pts below state median

Grade 726%

School 26% · District 26%

▲ 6 pts above state median

Grade 85%

School 5% · District 5%

▼ 12 pts below state median

Science

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 24%

even with state median

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Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income54%Higher-income47%7 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income36%Higher-income64%27 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income33%Higher-income31%2 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income47%Higher-income71%24 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income19%Higher-income39%20 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income26%Higher-income19%7 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income39%Higher-income27%12 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income18%Higher-income55%36 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income10%Higher-income19%9 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income7%Higher-income53%46 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income15%Higher-income31%16 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income13%Higher-income10%4 pp gap