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Peary Elementary School

Public Grades PK, KG-5
445th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 626 Oklahoma Elementary Schools
Better than 29% of Oklahoma elementary schools
Summary

Peary Elementary School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, serves prekindergarten through fifth grade and enrolls 287 students; in 2024–25, 96% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. Its clearest strength is math: 27% of students were proficient in 2025–26, above the state and district rates and second-highest among Peary and the nearby schools.

Peary’s all-grade results were above nearby-school averages in all three subjects, but ELA and science remained below state results. Math proficiency was 27%, compared with 25% statewide and 15% in the Tulsa district; the nearby-school average was 17%, and only College Bound-Eastside Campus scored higher, at 34%. ELA was 15%, 11 points below the state and 2 below the district, but 4 points above the nearby average. Science was 24%, 6 points below the state and 4 above the district, as well as about 9 points above the nearby average. Fourth-grade math was a particular bright spot at 40%, higher than the state’s 33% and the district’s 19%, and the strongest result among the nearby schools.

Math is improving: proficiency rose from 20% in 2024–25 to 27% in 2025–26, while the state rate dipped from 26% to 25%; ELA stayed at 15%, and science edged up from 23% to 24%. SchoolDigger ranks Peary 445th of 626 statewide, at the 29th percentile with 1 star; its percentile rose 3 points from the previous year and 26 points since 2020–21. SchoolDigger’s ranking for Low Socio Economic Status Students improved from the 15th percentile in 2023–24 to the 35th in 2024–25, then was 33rd in 2025–26—above Peary’s overall 29th percentile. The school’s 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 14, compared with a nearby average of 16; its free/reduced lunch eligible share was also higher than the nearby average of 90%. Chronic absenteeism fell from 23% in 2022–23 to 16% in 2025–26, close to the state’s 16% and well below the district’s 32%.

287
Students ?
14.0
Student/teacher ratio ?
$16,458
Per pupil spending ?
95.5%
Free/reduced lunch eligible (2024-25) ?
89.5%
Kindergartners up to date on all required vaccines (of those with a record on file) (2024-25)
Exemptions: 5.3% (any vaccine)
 10818 East 17th Street
       Tulsa, OK  74128-4128

(918) 925-1520

District: Tulsa


Students who attend Peary Elementary School usually attend:

Middle:    East Central Middle School
High:    East Central High School
Racial breakdown:

Hispanic:
57.5%
African American:
13.9%
White:
11.5%
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At a glance
▲ Ranking trend: Rebounding — 3rd percentile in 2021 → 29th in 2026
Strengths
✓Ranking is rebounding — up to 29th (2026) from a 3rd-percentile low (2021)
✓Among the top-ranked schools in Tulsa
Worth a look
!Test scores below the Oklahoma average (22% vs 27% meeting standards)
!English Language Arts I scores 11 pts below the Oklahoma average
Students meeting standards (2025-2026) ?
This school22%
District avg17%
Oklahoma avg27%
445th of 626
Oklahoma public elementary schools ?
Bottom 29%▲ up 26 pts since 2021
From bottom 3% (2021) to bottom 29% (2026)
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★★★★★
SchoolDigger rating ?
11th of 46Elementary Schools in the Tulsa
370th of 450Tulsa among Oklahoma districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
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All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankOklahoma percentileRating
202630.2445 of 62628.9%★☆☆☆☆
202527.3457 of 61425.6%★☆☆☆☆
20215.8629 of 6462.6%☆☆☆☆☆
20156.3890 of 9577.0%☆☆☆☆☆
201133.9667 of 84621.2%★☆☆☆☆
201023.3752 of 84511.0%★☆☆☆☆
200946.8500 of 84040.5%★★☆☆☆

English Language Learner

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankOklahoma percentileRating
202130.737 of 5836.2%★★☆☆☆

Low Socio Economic Status

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankOklahoma percentileRating
202636.4343 of 51032.7%★★☆☆☆
202534.7326 of 50235.1%★★☆☆☆
202418.9435 of 51315.2%★☆☆☆☆
202323.2394 of 48017.9%★☆☆☆☆
202210.7395 of 4124.1%☆☆☆☆☆
How student groups rank statewide ? (each group's percentile vs the same group at other schools — higher is better; the +/- beside each compares the group with this school's overall percentile)
English Language Learner (2021)36th percentile+34 vs school
Low Socio Economic Status (2026)33rd percentile+4 vs school
By subject vs Oklahoma (2025-2026) ?
Mathematics27%~ state avg
Science24%-6 vs state
English Language Arts I15%-11 vs state

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Students who attend Peary Elementary School usually go on to attend:

Middle : East Central Middle School
High : East Central High School

Students at Peary Elementary School are 57% Hispanic, 14% African American, 11% White, 9% Two or more races, 4% Asian, 3% American Indian, 1% Pacific Islander.

In the 2024-25 school year, 287 students attended Peary Elementary School.

Peary Elementary School ranks 445th of 626 Oklahoma elementary schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 1 star out of 5.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Oklahoma State Department of Education.

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