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One in Three Oklahoma Districts Just Hit Record-Low Enrollment
Tulsa is at its lowest enrollment in at least 11 years. So is Oklahoma City. So are Moore, Union, and Enid. In total, 187 of Oklahoma's 541 public school districts recorded their lowest enrollment in ...
OKC's Students Moved to the Suburbs. The Funding Didn't.
Deer Creek just asked voters for $153 million to build classrooms. Voters overwhelmingly approved the bond, and the district projects enrollment will reach 11,000 by 2034, up from 8,165 today. Fifteen...
Traditional Schools Lost 33,300 Students. The State Totals Hid It.
Oklahoma's statewide enrollment has barely moved in a decade. At 686,718 students in 2025-26, the total sits just 5,952 below its 2015-16 level, a decline of 0.9%. By national standards, that number l...
Two of Three Oklahoma Districts Lost Students This Year
In 2019, 333 Oklahoma districts lost students. The state still grew by 3,770, because a handful of fast-expanding charter and virtual schools more than offset the losses. In 2025-26, 350 districts los...
Tulsa Is Now Oklahoma's Largest District. Both It and OKC Are at All-Time Lows.
For decades, the question of Oklahoma's largest school district had an obvious answer. Oklahoma City enrolled 45,577 students in 2015-16, nearly 5,000 more than Tulsa. The gap seemed structural, built...
Oklahoma's Virtual Schools Now Enroll More Students Than Any District Except Two
If Oklahoma's seven virtual charter schools were a single district, it would be the state's third-largest. At 37,249 students in 2025-26, the virtual sector enrolls more students than Edmond (24,993),...
Fewer Kindergartners Than Seniors for the First Time
In 2016, Oklahoma's public schools enrolled 127 kindergartners for every 100 seniors. A decade later, that ratio has collapsed to 93. For the first time in the state's available enrollment history, fe...
Oklahoma City Lost Nearly a Third of Its Students in a Decade
In 2015-16, Oklahoma City Public Schools enrolled 45,577 students, more than any district in the state. By 2025-26, that number had fallen to 31,104. The loss of 14,473 students, a 31.8% decline, is t...
Oklahoma Lost More Students This Year Than During COVID
The last time Oklahoma lost this many students in a single year, schools were closed, parents were afraid to send children to classrooms, and a pandemic had upended American life. This time there is n...
Epic Charter: The School That Swallowed Oklahoma
In 2016, Epic Charter Schools enrolled 6,037 students, less than 1% of Oklahoma's public school population. Five years later it enrolled 59,445, more than any other public school entity in the state. ...