Lexington Elementary School

Lexington Elementary School serves pre-K through grade 5 and enrolls 463 students in Lexington, Oklahoma, near communities including Norman, Washington, Wayne and Purcell. In 2025–26, 23% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 20% in math and 27% in science, below state rates of 26%, 25% and 30%, respectively. Scores improved from the previous year, but the most important finding is that the school still trailed the state and nearby schools with comparable grade spans in all three subjects.

Compared with its district, Lexington did better in every subject: by 3 percentage points in ELA, 5 in math and 1 in science. Among nearby PK–5 schools—Washington Elementary in Norman, Ronald Reagan Elementary, Washington Elementary in Washington and Wayne Elementary—Lexington had the lowest all-grades rates in each subject. Those schools’ rates ranged from 35–41% in ELA, 24–52% in math and 35–52% in science, with averages of about 38%, 43% and 44%. Lexington’s grade 3 ELA result was a bright spot: 29%, above the state’s 26%. Attendance was also comparatively strong: chronic absenteeism was 9%, matching the district and below the state’s 16%.

Results improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA rose from 15% to 23%, math from 17% to 20% and science from 15% to 27%. SchoolDigger’s overall ranking rose from the 19th percentile and 1 star to the 34th percentile and 2 stars (411th of 626 schools), though nearby schools with rankings were at the 61st to 89th percentiles. SchoolDigger’s statewide measure of how well the school serves White Students was at the 10th percentile, 24 points below its overall standing. Its measure for Low Socio Economic Status Students rose from the 13th to the 38th percentile, close to the overall 34th. In 2024–25, 72% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, the second-highest share among ten nearby schools; the measure is context, not an explanation of scores. The student-teacher ratio that year was 14, slightly below the nearby average of 14.6. Nearby score comparisons are all-grades results, and schools may have different tested-grade mixes.