The top reported proficiency rate is 11% in Science. The lowest is 6% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Esperanza Es
Esperanza Elementary School serves students from pre-kindergarten through fourth grade in the Oklahoma City Public Schools system. The school is located on the south side of Oklahoma City, a sprawling and economically diverse state capital where the economy is anchored by energy, aviation, federal employment, and the livestock industry. The city’s enormous geographic footprint means that most of its neighborhoods, including this one, are car-dependent, with strip development and wide arterials defining the landscape outside the downtown core.
The student body is predominantly Hispanic, making up the large majority of enrollment, with small shares of white, Black, and multiracial students. The school enrolls about 400 students, with roughly similar class sizes across kindergarten through fourth grade and a substantial pre-kindergarten cohort. Data on the share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price meals, as well as the number of students with disabilities or classified as English learners, was not available in the record, which is a gap a parent may want to clarify with the school directly.
State assessment results for the 2024-25 school year show that proficiency rates in both math and English language arts are low. In third grade, about one in eleven students scored proficient or above in math, and a similar share did so in reading. By fourth grade, those rates dropped further, with roughly one in twenty-five students scoring proficient in math and an even smaller proportion in reading. Oklahoma adjusted its cut scores for these assessments, which makes it difficult to compare these results to prior years. The most recent science data, from 2018-19, showed fifth-grade proficiency at about one in nine, though the school no longer serves fifth grade, so that measure is not current.
When compared with other elementary schools across Oklahoma County, Esperanza’s overall proficiency index places it in the bottom quarter of schools. This is a straightforward reflection of the assessment data. A parent considering this school would want to understand what academic supports are in place and how the school is working to raise student performance. The record does not include information about course access, staffing ratios, or program offerings, so it is not possible from this data to describe the school’s approach to intervention or enrichment.
Oklahoma City Public Schools, the parent district, has been the subject of publicly reported bond initiatives in recent years aimed at facility improvements and infrastructure. This broader district context matters because resources and priorities at the district level often shape what is available at individual schools. However, no specific recent bond or program details were available in the provided research.
Esperanza Elementary is a neighborhood school serving young children in a large urban district. The student population is heavily Hispanic, and the academic results on state assessments are among the lowest in the county. The school does not serve grades that produce a graduation rate, so that metric does not apply. Housing in the surrounding area is relatively affordable compared to national benchmarks, with home values and rents that are below both state and national averages. For a family weighing this school, the central question is what tier of academic support and instructional strategy the school uses to move its proficiency numbers, and that information is not present in the available data.
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