The top reported proficiency rate is 13% in Science. The lowest is 6% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Cesar Chavez Es
Cesar Chavez Elementary sits in the southeast quadrant of Oklahoma City, an area shaped by the city’s enormous geographic reach. Oklahoma City itself is the state capital, a sprawling metropolis of government offices, energy-sector headquarters, livestock markets, and aviation hubs. The economy is anchored by oil and gas, federal installations like Tinker Air Force Base, and a growing health-care sector. The city has invested heavily in downtown revitalization through the voter-approved MAPS program, but outside the core the development pattern is wide and car-dependent. The school’s location on Southeast Grand Boulevard places it in a part of the city where walkability is limited and housing is relatively affordable compared to national benchmarks.
Cesar Chavez serves students from pre-kindergarten through fourth grade, a straight early-elementary span. The student body is predominantly Hispanic, a composition that families considering the school will encounter as a plain characteristic of the peer environment. Smaller shares of white, Black, two-or-more-races, and American Indian or Alaska Native students are also enrolled. The school does not report a free-or-reduced-price-lunch rate in the available data, nor does it provide counts of students with individualized education plans or English learner classification, so a full picture of the support landscape is incomplete. A parent may want to ask the school directly about these services.
On state assessments, the picture is one the data makes clear: proficiency rates are low. In math and English language arts for both tested grades, the share of students reaching the proficient level is in the single digits. Science testing from an earlier year also showed a modest but still low proficiency rate. The school’s overall proficiency index, which averages across tested subjects and grades, places it in the bottom quartile among the districts in Oklahoma County. Because Oklahoma adjusted its assessment cut scores in recent years, direct year-over-year comparisons are not straightforward, but the current results are a soft spot any family would want to explore further with the school or district.
The school is part of Oklahoma City Public Schools, a large urban district that has undertaken bond programs and facility investments in recent years. District-level news was checked in publicly reported sources, but no specific recent strategic or facility updates appeared in the material available for this narrative, so that dimension is not described here rather than guessed at.
Housing in the zip code that includes the school shows moderate home values, somewhat below the state benchmark, and rents that are a modest share of typical local income. The area has seen a slight year-over-year dip in home values and a notable increase in rents, consistent with broader national trends in rental costs. For a family weighing this school, the affordability of the immediate neighborhood is a meaningful factor relative to other parts of the city.
Cesar Chavez is not a charter school, and its magnet status is not reported. It serves only the early grades, so there is no graduation rate, no chronic absenteeism data, and no course-access or discipline data to evaluate. Those gaps reflect the nature of the school rather than missing performance. The academic data, though, is the central piece of evidence here. Low proficiency rates across multiple years and subjects are the school’s most prominent characteristic in the available records. A family looking at this school will want to understand how the school is working to address those results and what supports are in place, particularly since key student-support data is not provided in the public dataset used here.
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