Allen-Bowden

Allen-Bowden Public School is the only school in Allen-Bowden, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 and enrolling 294 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency was 14% in English language arts (ELA), 14% in mathematics, and 26% in science; Oklahoma’s rates were 26%, 25%, and 30%, respectively. The most important takeaway is that results improved from the prior year, but the school remained below the state in all three subjects.

There are no local schools to compare as top or bottom performers, but science is the school’s strongest subject relative to Oklahoma: its 26% proficiency was 4 points below the state, compared with gaps of 12 points in ELA and 11 in math. Grade-level results show important differences within those overall figures. Grade 6 ELA was 26%, 1 point above the state, while grade 4 ELA was 0%, 22 points below. Math was below the state in every reported grade, with the largest gaps in grade 3 (10% versus 33%, a 23-point gap) and grade 8 (3% versus 17%, a 14-point gap).

Proficiency rose in every subject from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA and math each gained 4 points, and science gained 6; the average gap with the state narrowed from 14 to 9 points. SchoolDigger rates the school 1 star and ranks it 506th of 626 schools, in the 19th percentile, for 2025–2026; its ranking was in the 44th percentile in 2020–2021, a decline of 25 percentile points. The school’s student-teacher ratio was 14:1 in 2024–2025, when 85% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 22%, compared with 16% statewide, a 6-point difference. Because the area has one school, local school-to-school comparisons are not possible, and SchoolDigger rankings compare the school with a changing set of schools.