8th and 9th Grade Academy

Located at 402 N S St, in Muskogee, Oklahoma, 8th and 9th Grade Academy is a moderately sized four-year high school that caters to 595 students (grades 8 through 9), operated by MUSKOGEE. That puts it 34% larger than the typical public school in Oklahoma, which averages around 443 students.

MUSKOGEE runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 4,770 students. 8th and 9th Grade Academy is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, 8th and 9th Grade Academy shows that 31% of students identify as multiracial, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 23% White, 21% Hispanic, 15% Black, 8% Native American.

Looking at school resources, 8th and 9th Grade Academy logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Roughly 79% of students at 8th and 9th Grade Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, 8th and 9th Grade Academy falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 28.4%; this one comes in at 13.5%, -14.8 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Muskogee County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $53,619 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Muskogee County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,911 students), 8th and 9th Grade Academy is one campus in the mix.

TONY GOETZ ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.