Enrollment Trends at Carl Albert State

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,952 where 1,851 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

Total enrollment fluctuated between 2016 and 2025, with 4 year-over-year increases and 5 decreases. It peaked at 2,276 students in 2016 and was lowest at 1,781 in 2022. Overall, enrollment dropped from 2,276 to 1,851 students, a net loss of 425 (18.7%).

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Carl Albert State College since 2015.

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Year	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	2,276	833	1,443
2016-17	2,194 -82	812 -21	1,382 -61
2017-18	2,068 -126	692 -120	1,376 -6
2018-19	1,900 -168	617 -75	1,283 -93
2019-20	1,916 16	601 -16	1,315 32
2020-21	1,922 6	610 9	1,312 -3
2021-22	1,781 -141	552 -58	1,229 -83
2022-23	1,823 42	590 38	1,233 4
2023-24	1,786 -37	561 -29	1,225 -8
2024-25	1,851 65	595 34	1,256 31
Average	1,952	646	1,305

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 42.25% and the percentage of black students is 1.46% at Carl Albert State College. 0.81% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 9.56% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 58.04% to 42.25%. Asian enrollment grew from 0.35% to 0.81%. Black student enrollment decreased from 4.22% to 1.46%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 5.32% to 9.56%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.7572 which indicates that quite diverse. This increased from 0.6039 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Carl Albert State College over the past 11 years (2015-2025).

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Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
	2015-16	507	8	96	121	3	1,321	161
2016-17	538	6	63	148	1	1,243	134
2017-18	456	6	57	158	0	1,125	224
2018-19	339	9	46	131	2	1,013	329
2019-20	284	16	43	157	3	969	425
2020-21	322	13	30	140	1	954	450
2021-22	526	21	22	152	0	856	166
2022-23	428	21	27	150	2	871	276
2023-24	345	20	25	168	2	875	306
2024-25	319	15	27	177	2	782	294
Average	406	14	44	150	2	1,001	277