CENTRAL HS

CENTRAL HS is a high school of reasonably sized scale in Tulsa, Oklahoma, overseen by TULSA, serveing 430 students in grades 9 through 12.

Within TULSA, which oversees 69 schools and 33,617 students, CENTRAL HS is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, CENTRAL HS reports that 56% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest comes out to 15% Hispanic, 12% White, 9% multiracial, 4% Native American. By comparison, Osage County as a whole is about 10% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Osage County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Osage County indicate median household earnings sit near $62,847, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Osage County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,655 students), CENTRAL HS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CENTRAL MS, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CENTRAL HS has shrank 21%, going from 545 students in 2018 to 430 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 64% to 56% across the same window.

On allk12, members of the CENTRAL HS community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.