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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 ...
Oklahoma's Elementary Pipeline Is Emptying
For every kindergartner who walked into an Oklahoma public school this fall, a senior walked out the other end and took a friend. The state enrolled 45,680 kindergartners in 2025-26 but counted 49,213...
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...
Three in Four Oklahoma Districts Still Below Pre-COVID Enrollment
Oklahoma's public school enrollment returned above pre-pandemic levels in 2022. It stayed there for three years. Then, in 2025-26, the bottom fell out: 10,640 students vanished in a single year, the l...
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...
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...