The top reported proficiency rate is 17% in Math. The lowest is 15% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Apollo Es
Apollo Elementary is a pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade public school in Bethany, part of the larger Putnam City district. It sits in a small city roughly a short drive west of downtown Oklahoma City, a suburb shaped by commuters, two universities (Southern Nazarene University and Southwestern Christian University), and an aviation industrial park. Bethany has a traditional downtown along Historic Route 66 where civic festivals are held, a library opened in recent years, and natural areas like Stinchcomb Wildlife Refuge and Lake Overholser on its western edge. The city's character mixes owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing, and the housing market locally shows a median home value and rent that are below national benchmarks.
The school itself enrolls a student body that is predominantly Hispanic, with a much smaller share of Black students, a still smaller share of white students, and modest representation from multiracial, Asian, and American Indian or Alaska Native students. This composition reflects the broader neighborhood demographics. As a K-5 campus, Apollo does not have a graduation rate or high school program offerings such as Advanced Placement or career pathways; those are features of the secondary schools students would attend later. The school has no state testing participation rate or free-and-reduced-price lunch data in the available record, so a family cannot see from this information how broadly students took the tests or the level of economic need.
What is available is the state's academic assessment results for the most recent testing year. Those results show a consistent pattern of low proficiency across grades and subjects. In math, the share of students scoring proficient or above falls with each successive grade, from third grade through fifth. In English language arts, the same downward trend appears, with fewer than a quarter of students meeting the proficiency bar in third grade and only about a tenth in fourth grade. Fifth-grade science results are similarly low. The school's overall proficiency index, when placed among districts in Oklahoma County, falls below the midpoint of the comparison set. A parent considering Apollo Elementary should look into these performance numbers further with the school or the district to understand what instructional supports are in place and whether recent changes in state cut scores, which Oklahoma applied in both math and English language arts for this testing year, affected the comparability of these results to prior years.
The district, Putnam City Schools, passed what was publicly reported as its largest bond issue in history in early 2024. Those funds were directed toward school safety, classroom technology, transportation, and facility upgrades across all district schools, including Apollo. That investment may shape the learning environment and physical plant in the coming years, though the bond's specific impact on academic programming at Apollo is not detailed in the available information.
For a family, Apollo Elementary is a small urban-suburban elementary school with a majority Hispanic student population and a sizable share of Black students. It is part of a district that has committed major resources to facility and technology improvements. The academic proficiency rates are below the county midpoint, and a parent would want to learn more about how the school supports students who are not yet at grade-level benchmarks and what interventions are offered, particularly in the upper elementary grades where the reported rates are lowest. No charter, magnet, or Title I status is reported for Apollo, and no information about special education or English learner enrollment is present in the data.
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