HEARTLAND MS

HEARTLAND MS is an intermediate school of sprawling scale in Edmond, Oklahoma, overseen by EDMOND, enrolling 1,005 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Oklahoma's public schools average about 388 students each, so HEARTLAND MS sits 159% bigger than that benchmark.

EDMOND runs 28 schools in total, collectively educating 25,746 students. HEARTLAND MS is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, HEARTLAND MS reports that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 16% Black, 13% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 6% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, HEARTLAND MS logs 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Oklahoma County's rate of about 67%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HEARTLAND MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.8%, the actual is 33.5%, a residual of -8.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Oklahoma County put median household earnings sit near $66,679, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Oklahoma County's 225 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students), HEARTLAND MS is one campus in the mix.

FRONTIER ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HEARTLAND MS. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HEARTLAND MS ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 44.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. HEARTLAND MS's enrollment has grew 3% since 2018, when it stood at 979 (now 1,005). The White share of enrollment contracted from 59% to 50% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for HEARTLAND MS typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.