The top reported proficiency rate is 32% in Math. The lowest is 26% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Jefferson Es
Jefferson Elementary sits in Pryor, the county seat of Mayes County, a town built around a traditional downtown core and anchored by the MidAmerica Industrial Park, a major manufacturing and data-center hub just south of the city. The school serves students from prekindergarten through fifth grade, and it is one of the elementary campuses within the Pryor Public Schools district. The district itself has seen notable capital investment in facilities, a publicly reported signal of ongoing attention to the physical school environment.
The student body is diverse in composition. White students make up the largest share, followed closely by students who identify as two or more races and a substantial population of American Indian or Alaska Native students. Hispanic students and Asian students round out the enrollment. This mix gives the school a multiracial character that is uncommon in many small-town settings.
State testing results from the most recent school year offer a mixed picture. In mathematics, proficiency rates varied noticeably by grade level, with fourth-grade students posting a stronger result than third-grade students, and fifth-grade students showing a lower proficiency rate than either of the lower tested grades. In English language arts, the available data for third and fifth grades showed similar rates, while the fourth-grade result was suppressed, so a clear read across the full grade band is not possible. Fifth-grade science results fell in a comparable range. The school’s overall proficiency index, which averages performance across all tested subjects and grades, placed Jefferson Elementary in the top quartile among districts in Mayes County, meaning it performed above the midpoint of its county peers. Because Oklahoma changed its math and English language arts cut scores in this testing cycle, direct comparisons to prior years are not reliable.
The school serves only elementary grades, so there is no graduation rate to report, and the data included no information on chronic absenteeism, discipline rates, or staffing ratios. A parent may want to ask the school directly about those areas.
Housing in the zip code that serves the school is moderately priced relative to national benchmarks, and values have appreciated at a pace above the statewide average over the past year, reflecting the broader economic activity driven by the industrial park’s expansion. The town’s population has been relatively stable over recent decades, and while major new residential developments were not identified in publicly available sources, the area continues to attract large employers such as Google and Canoo, which adds a layer of economic stability that shapes the community context families will experience.
Jefferson Elementary’s academic profile shows a school that, while not uniformly high across all grades and subjects, holds a position relative to its county peers that is better than many. The variation by grade, particularly in math, suggests that student performance can shift meaningfully from one year to the next, which is worth noting for families who will have children moving through these grades. The school’s setting within a town that balances industrial employment with small-town civic life, and within a district that has recently invested in its facilities, gives it a practical, grounded character. It is a school where a family will find a racially varied student body, a solid but not exceptional test record, and a community whose economic fortunes are tied to large-scale industrial employers rather than to residential growth or a university presence.
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