BYNG JHS

As a middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campus in Ada, Oklahoma, BYNG JHS caters to 370 students from grades 7 through 9, one of the schools within BYNG.

BYNG JHS is one of 5 schools operated by BYNG, a district that works with 1,753 students overall.

On the student-mix side, BYNG JHS reports that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 32% Native American, 14% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. By comparison, Pontotoc County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.7:1, putting BYNG JHS higher than the state norm the norm. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Pontotoc County's rate of about 64%.

With demographic context factored in, BYNG JHS is in the bottom 10% of Oklahoma public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 39.1%; BYNG JHS posts 25.2%, -13.9 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Pontotoc County) reports that median household income runs about $63,017, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Pontotoc County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,104 students), BYNG JHS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BYNG HS, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BYNG JHS at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 34.7%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 376 students in 2018 compared to 370 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 4% to 10%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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