News – John Rex Charter Elementary

Board Amends Enrollment Policy Beginning in 2019-20

January 7, 2019

Dear John Rex Families: Since the school opened in 2014, the population of downtown Oklahoma City has expanded and interest in our school has grown significantly. However, we have limited classroom space. The Board voted yesterday in a special meeting to amend our enrollment criteria to better plan for the future and this heightened demand. Please note many of these policy tweaks only apply to new Rex Rockets who enroll for the first time in school year 2019-20. The two biggest revisions moving forward impact enrollment of siblings and applications from Tier 4. Under our new criteria, legal siblings will…

John Rex Receives $5,000 for STEM Education

December 10, 2018

John Rex Director of Elementary Education Heather Zacarias receives a $5,000 donation from members of Continental’s Funding the Future committee. OKLAHOMA CITY (Dec. 10, 2018) – John Rex Charter School received a Funding the Future grant from Continental Resources to provide students with hands-on, creative learning opportunities. The school plans to use the $5,000 award to help fund a makerspace: a dedicated room to encourage students to design, experiment, build and invent as they engage in science, engineering, technology, math (STEM) and tinkering. “Our school’s success is fueled by private-public partnerships, and we’re so thankful for Continental’s support in providing…

State-Mandated Test Results Are In

September 26, 2018

On Sept. 20, John Rex Charter School’s Director of Elementary Education Heather Zacarias shared the latest state-mandated test results at the board of directors meeting. The results for grades 3-5 is available on the Resources page here.