The top reported proficiency rate is 33% in Math. The lowest is 19% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Prue Es
Prue ES is a small rural school in southwestern Osage County, serving students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. The school is part of the Prue district, a single-school system that covers the town of Prue and the surrounding area. The school itself sits at the corner of Broadway and Main, the heart of a town that was moved in the 1960s when Lake Keystone flooded the original townsite. Today, Prue is a quiet residential place with a population that has declined over recent decades; most working residents likely commute to the Tulsa area, roughly a half-hour drive to the southeast.
The school has a total enrollment that is modest for a PK-8 building. The student body is predominantly white, with a sizable share of students who identify as two or more races and a smaller share who are American Indian or Alaska Native. There is a very small Hispanic presence, and Asian students make up a tiny portion of the enrollment. No data was available on the share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch or the share of students receiving special education or English learner services, so a parent would want to ask the school directly about the extent of economic diversity and support resources.
State testing data for the 2024-25 school year is available for some grades, though some results were suppressed, a common practice when the number of tested students is very small. In math, the school’s results show a pattern: proficiency rates were low in third and fourth grade, while in seventh and eighth grade, the share of students scoring at or above the proficient level was higher. In English language arts, the results were lower overall. The fourth-grade rate was the weakest by a substantial margin, while fifth grade was the strongest of the grades with reported data. Science results for fifth grade were reported; the eighth-grade science result was suppressed. Because Oklahoma changed its cut scores for math and English language arts in recent years, year-to-year comparisons are not reliable.
Among the districts in Osage County, Prue ES sits in the top quartile for overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades, based on a composite index that averages the reported rates. This positions the school above the midpoint of the county’s districts, but the composite is an average of results that vary considerably from grade to grade and subject to subject. The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to report, and chronic absenteeism data was not available.
The school offers no information about its programs, course access, or staffing in the data available. There is no indication of whether it provides elements common in rural schools, such as career exploration or shared-time arrangements with nearby high schools. A parent considering Prue ES would need to contact the district office to learn about art, music, physical education, foreign language, and any enrichment or intervention programs.
The town itself has few civic anchors beyond the school and the town hall. Lake Keystone provides recreational access, but there is no public library branch in Prue, no public transit, and no named parks within the town limits. The housing market was not included in the data, so a family would need to look at local listings and speak with a realtor familiar with the area. The district has not made any recent structural or policy changes that were publicly reported, so the school appears to be operating on a stable, long-established footing.
For a family that values a very small, rural school where the town and school are tightly connected, Prue ES offers that setting. The state testing results are uneven, with some grades and subjects showing weaker performance that a parent should investigate further with the school. The lack of school-level program data and the absence of information about student support services are gaps a prospective family would want to fill before making a decision.
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