CENTRAL MS

Located at 1201 Northwest Fort Sill Boulevard, in Lawton, Oklahoma, CENTRAL MS is an expansive intermediate school that hosts 955 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within LAWTON. By comparison, Oklahoma's public schools average about 388 students each, so CENTRAL MS sits 146% bigger than that benchmark.

LAWTON runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 13,642 students. CENTRAL MS is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, CENTRAL MS shows that the largest single group is White at 30%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 29% Hispanic, 18% Black, 16% multiracial, 5% Native American. By comparison, Comanche County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Comanche County (around 67%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, CENTRAL MS is in the bottom 10% of Oklahoma public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 27.9%; CENTRAL MS posts 11.2%, -16.8 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, Comanche County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,761 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Comanche County runs 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,786 students), of which CENTRAL MS is one.

Nearest neighbor: LAWTON HS, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CENTRAL MS.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CENTRAL MS has expanded 26%, going from 757 students in 2018 to 955 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 37% to 30% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.