Oklahoma Virtual Charter Academy
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...
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...
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),...
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. ...