CENTRAL MS

Set in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, CENTRAL MS is a roomy 6-8 campus, overseen by BARTLESVILLE. It instructs 662 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Oklahoma's public schools average about 388 students each, so CENTRAL MS sits 71% larger than that benchmark.

Within BARTLESVILLE, which oversees 9 schools and 6,181 students, CENTRAL MS is one campus in the system.

Demographically, CENTRAL MS records that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 21% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 8% Native American, 3% Black. By comparison, Washington County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, CENTRAL MS reports 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.7:1 average. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, CENTRAL MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.0%, the actual is 28.0%, a residual of -7.0 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Washington County put the typical household earns roughly $60,162 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Washington County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,692 students), of which CENTRAL MS is one.

The closest other public school is RICHARD KANE ES, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CENTRAL MS. On composite proficiency, CENTRAL MS comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CENTRAL MS has ticked up 12%, going from 589 students in 2018 to 662 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.