ALTUS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

Located at 1221 North Howse Street, in Altus, Oklahoma, ALTUS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is a moderately sized 6-8 campus that enrolls 509 students (grades 5 through 6), part of ALTUS. That puts it 31% above the typical public school in Oklahoma, which averages around 388 students.

ALTUS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one of 7 schools operated by ALTUS, a district that hosts 3,593 students overall.

In terms of who attends, ALTUS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL logs that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 38% White, 9% multiracial, 6% Black. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, ALTUS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.7:1, putting ALTUS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, ALTUS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.4%, the actual is 26.6%, a residual of -5.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Jackson County shows median household earnings sit near $62,799, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. ALTUS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one of 16 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 4,536 students).

Nearest neighbor: ALTUS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER, around 0.1 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ALTUS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 38.3%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALTUS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL has ticked up 16%, going from 440 students in 2018 to 509 in 2025.

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