The top reported proficiency rate is 13% in English language arts. The lowest is 10% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Mason Es
Mason ES is a pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade school in the unincorporated rural community of Mason, Oklahoma. It is one of two schools in its district, sharing a campus on a county road with the high school. The enrollment is small, and the student body is majority white, with a substantial share identifying as American Indian or Alaska Native and a further share identifying as two or more races. No Asian, Black, or Hispanic students were reported in the data we reviewed. The campus sits outside any identifiable downtown core; as a remote unincorporated community, the school itself is the primary civic anchor, and the surrounding area is agricultural and rural in character. A family considering this school should understand they are looking at a very small, isolated setting where automobile travel is a necessity.
State test results from the most recent year show a student body that is, as a whole, performing well below state proficiency benchmarks. In mathematics, proficiency rates in the grades where data was not suppressed ranged from roughly one in every ten students in third grade to roughly one in every twenty students in seventh grade. In English language arts, proficiency rates were similarly low, with the highest reported rate landing at roughly one in five fourth-grade students. Several grade-level results in both math and science were suppressed because the group was too small to report. The school sits in the bottom quartile for overall proficiency among the five districts in Okfuskee County, according to the available comparison data. There is no graduation rate to report because this school serves only through eighth grade; students leave for the district's separate high school after eighth grade. No chronic absenteeism rate was available.
The available data on student support and program offerings is thin. We looked for information on special education identification rates, English learner services, staffing ratios, and course access but found none. A parent may want to investigate these areas directly with the school, particularly how services are structured for a small enrollment across a wide grade span that covers early childhood through middle school. The school does not appear to offer high school level courses or extracurricular breadth given its grade band. The elementary and middle school years are the full scope of what happens here.
Housing values in the area around Mason ES fall well below both the state median and the national median, though they have appreciated at a notably faster pace than the state over the most recent year measured. The mortgage rate context at the time of data collection placed home affordability in a somewhat elevated interest rate environment. The local unemployment rate and national median household income figures are provided as economic context but do not directly describe Mason. No commercial district or cluster of employers was identified in the community beyond the school district itself.
The district brief turned up no evidence of lasting parent-relevant changes in recent years, such as bond measures, boundary shifts, or program additions. This is consistent with a very small, stable rural district. For a family weighing this school, the core academic picture is a place where proficiency rates are low across every tested subject and grade, with no data on whether the school is implementing new curricula or interventions. The comparison to other Okfuskee County districts reinforces that this is the lowest-performing of the five by the measure used. The setting is remote, the enrollment is small, and the school is the community's primary institution.
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