Summary:
Dewar has one elementary school, Dewar Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 5, with 249 students. In 2025–2026, its proficiency was 20% in English Language Arts (ELA), 29% in mathematics and 26% in science, compared with Oklahoma results of 26%, 25% and 30%, respectively. Averaged equally across the three subjects, the school was at 25%, 2 points below the state’s 27%. The most encouraging finding is that results improved in all three subjects from the prior year.
Because it is the only school in the area, Dewar Elementary School is both the local top and bottom; its state comparisons show where it stands out. Mathematics was strongest overall, 4 points above Oklahoma (29% versus 25%), while ELA was 6 points below (20% versus 26%) and science was 4 points below (26% versus 30%). Results vary by grade: fourth-grade math was 5 points above the state, at 38% versus 33%, while fifth-grade ELA was 10 points below, at 18% versus 28%. Fifth-grade math was also 8 points below the state. Chronic absenteeism was 17% in 2025–2026, about 1 point above the state rate and 6 points above the district rate.
The upward trend is consistent across subjects: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA rose from 14% to 20%, math from 25% to 29%, and science from 21% to 26%. The school’s three-subject average increased from 20% to 25%, narrowing its gap with the state from about 7 points to 2. SchoolDigger’s rating also rose, from the 28th percentile and 1 star in 2024–2025 to the 38th percentile and 2 stars in 2025–2026. For added context, the school reported 76% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025 and a student-teacher ratio of 15:1 that year; these are context measures, not explanations for achievement results. With one school in the area, families cannot compare local schools against each other.
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