South Rock Creek Public School, Shawnee OK

Original Research by School Decision on South Rock Creek Public School

South Rock Creek Public School is a pre-kindergarten through eighth grade public school serving a rural area southeast of Shawnee, Oklahoma. It is the only school in the South Rock Creek district. Because it serves only elementary and middle school grades, there is no high school graduation rate here and no advanced placement or career-and-technical course data that would apply to a high school. A parent considering this school should be aware that after eighth grade, students must transition to a different district for high school, typically Shawnee Public Schools or another area option.

The school enrolls around 400 students across ten grades from PK through eighth. The student body is majority white, with a substantial presence of American Indian or Alaska Native students, along with a significant share of students identifying as two or more races. Hispanic and Black students each make up a small slice of enrollment. The school does not appear to report free-and-reduced-price meal data, so family income levels are not part of this picture. English learner and special education counts were also not available, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about its support for students with disabilities or language needs.

On state testing from a recent year, the results are uneven across subjects and grades. In fourth grade math, a strong majority of students scored proficient or above. Eighth grade science also shows a solid majority reaching the proficient bar. But fifth grade math falls well below that level, and fifth grade science performance is also low. Most English language arts results were suppressed in the data, likely due to small group sizes or privacy rules, so there is no clear picture of reading and writing performance for most grade levels. When all tested subjects and grades are combined into an overall index, the school sits in the top quarter among districts in Pottawatomie County. That is a strong position relative to local peers, though the variation from grade to grade is wide enough that a parent should look at how their own child's grade performs rather than assume a consistent pattern.

The school is located on South Rock Creek Road, outside the city limits of Shawnee in a rural setting. Shawnee itself is a regional hub of about 30,000 people, home to Oklahoma Baptist University, a regional medical center, and the headquarters of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. The city has a historic downtown along Main Street but is largely auto-oriented, with development spread along Interstate 40 and commercial strips. Housing in the South Rock Creek ZIP code is notably more affordable than the state median or national median, with home values a bit above half the national figure. Rents also run well below the typical national rent. The affordability gap between buying and renting favors buying, by a modest margin.

A search for recent district-level changes such as bond measures, curriculum shifts, or boundary adjustments found no reports of any major parent-relevant developments. The district appears to have operated with minimal publicly noted change in recent years.

This school may fit families who want a small setting through middle school in a rural area near Shawnee but with a preference for affordable housing and a Peer comparison that shows above-average academic results by the county's standards. The gaps in performance by grade and subject, along with the absence of reading data for most levels, are soft spots that a parent should investigate further with the school. The lack of high school grades means this is not the full K-12 pathway unless a family has a plan for the high school years.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 456%

School 56% · District 56%

▲ 27 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

Grade 513%

School 13% · District 13%

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 839%

School 39% · District 39%

▲ 27 pts above state median

Science

Grade 518%

School 18% · District 18%

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 856%

School 56% · District 56%

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

This schoolSOUTH ROCK CREEK, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income74%Higher-income80%6 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income44%Higher-income54%10 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income38%Higher-income76%39 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income64%Higher-income78%15 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income58%Higher-income70%12 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income47%Higher-income82%34 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income26%Higher-income56%30 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income28%Higher-income42%14 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income25%Higher-income76%51 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income46%Higher-income69%23 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income37%Higher-income75%38 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income53%Higher-income82%29 pp gap