BLANCHARD MS

Located at 610 NE 7th Street, in Blanchard, Oklahoma, BLANCHARD MS is a mid-tier middle school that works with 454 students (grades 6 through 8), part of BLANCHARD.

BLANCHARD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,230 students; BLANCHARD MS is among them.

Looking at the student body, BLANCHARD MS shows that 67% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 13% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 7% Native American. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

On the resource side, BLANCHARD MS reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.7:1, putting BLANCHARD MS higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BLANCHARD MS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.1%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (McClain County) records that median household earnings sit near $84,552, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, McClain County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,736 students), of which BLANCHARD MS is one.

BLANCHARD INTERMEDIATE ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around BLANCHARD MS. On composite proficiency, BLANCHARD MS comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.4%.

BLANCHARD MS operates from a countryside location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 451 students in 2018 compared to 454 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 74% to 67%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.

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