DOVE SCIENCE ACADEMY MS-SOUTH OKC

DOVE SCIENCE ACADEMY MS-SOUTH OKC is a junior high of modestly sized scale in OKlahoma City, Oklahoma, overseen by DOVE SCHOOLS OF OKC (CHARTER), caters to 310 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 20% leaner than the typical public school in Oklahoma, which averages around 388 students.

DOVE SCHOOLS OF OKC (CHARTER) comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,052 students; DOVE SCIENCE ACADEMY MS-SOUTH OKC is among them.

Looking at the student body, DOVE SCIENCE ACADEMY MS-SOUTH OKC logs that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 12% Black, 6% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 20% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, DOVE SCIENCE ACADEMY MS-SOUTH OKC has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.2:1. The state averages around 15.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Oklahoma County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DOVE SCIENCE ACADEMY MS-SOUTH OKC is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 25.5%; this one delivers 45.9%, a residual of +20.4 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Oklahoma County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $66,679 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Oklahoma County's 225 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students), DOVE SCIENCE ACADEMY MS-SOUTH OKC is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DOVE SCIENCE ACADEMY ES-SOUTH OKC, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DOVE SCIENCE ACADEMY MS-SOUTH OKC ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 34.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. DOVE SCIENCE ACADEMY MS-SOUTH OKC is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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