JOHN MARSHALL MS

As a high-enrollment 6-8 campus in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, JOHN MARSHALL MS teaches 698 students from grades 5 through 8, part of OKLAHOMA CITY. By comparison, Oklahoma's public schools average about 388 students each, so JOHN MARSHALL MS sits 80% bigger than that benchmark.

JOHN MARSHALL MS is one of 58 schools operated by OKLAHOMA CITY, a district that hosts 32,864 students overall.

On the student-mix side, JOHN MARSHALL MS shows that the most-represented group is Black (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 24% Hispanic, 10% White, 9% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.7:1 average. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Oklahoma County's rate of about 67%.

Across the wider county, census data for Oklahoma County shows median household earnings sit near $66,679, 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), JOHN MARSHALL MS is one campus in the mix.

QUAIL CREEK ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. JOHN MARSHALL MS's enrollment has ticked up 217% since 2018, when it stood at 220 (now 698). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 67% to 48%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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