HARDING CHARTER PREPARATORY MS at INDEPENDENCE

HARDING CHARTER PREPARATORY MS at INDEPENDENCE, a middle-of-the-pack middle school in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, operated by HARDING INDEPENDENCE (CHARTER), educates 404 students, covering grades 5 through 8.

Within HARDING INDEPENDENCE (CHARTER), which oversees 3 schools and 1,055 students, HARDING CHARTER PREPARATORY MS at INDEPENDENCE is one campus in the system.

Demographically, HARDING CHARTER PREPARATORY MS at INDEPENDENCE records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (32%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 31% Black, 21% White, 10% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, Oklahoma County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, HARDING CHARTER PREPARATORY MS at INDEPENDENCE reports 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. The state averages around 15.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 74% of students at HARDING CHARTER PREPARATORY MS at INDEPENDENCE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, HARDING CHARTER PREPARATORY MS at INDEPENDENCE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.3%; this one delivers 27.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Oklahoma County indicate 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%. HARDING CHARTER PREPARATORY MS at INDEPENDENCE is one of 225 public schools in Oklahoma County (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students).

Nearest neighbor: KIRKLAND EARLY CHILDHOOD CTR, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HARDING CHARTER PREPARATORY MS at INDEPENDENCE. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HARDING CHARTER PREPARATORY MS at INDEPENDENCE ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 32.0%.

HARDING CHARTER PREPARATORY MS at INDEPENDENCE operates from a metropolitan location. HARDING CHARTER PREPARATORY MS at INDEPENDENCE operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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