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Enrollment
708
Middle
DISTRICT 813 · STATE 388
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORMAN·NCES 402172001078
Longfellow Middle School
215 North Ponca Avenue, Norman, OK 73071 · (405) 366-5948 · Cleveland County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL708 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of Oklahoma public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Oklahoma public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.8:1 · STATE 15.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
398 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 68%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 230 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 235 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 243 | 34% |
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
OSTP / CCRA 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
24.0%
OK avg 30.6%
Math
22.9%
OK avg 32.6%
What this means: On the OSTP / CCRA, Oklahoma's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oklahoma schools, those numbers are about 31 and 33.
Source: OSTP / CCRA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
24.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.4%
based on OK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for Oklahoma schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oklahoma's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Longfellow Middle School
Longfellow Middle School's state test result (24.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Longfellow Middle School this school | 708 | 56.2% | 24.2% |
| Redstone Intermediate School Oklahoma City | 750 | 54.4% | 43.4% |
| Will Rogers Junior High School Claremore | 792 | 59.6% | 22.6% |
| Edison Preparatory Middle School Tulsa | 860 | 58.6% | 32.3% |
| Central Middle School Bartlesville | 662 | 60.3% | 28.0% |
| Ada Junior High School Ada | 581 | 59.0% | 24.0% |
Matched among Oklahoma middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Longfellow Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Oklahoma | In Cleveland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.2% | #169 of 222 | #8 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.9% | #144 of 223 | #7 of 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #143 of 211 | #8 of 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 708 | #54 of 356 | #4 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #153 of 237 | #7 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.9% | #89 of 237 | #7 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.2% | #214 of 308 | #8 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.3% | #104 of 113 | #8 of 8 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
708
+101 (+17%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 847
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 14.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 708 | 41.9 | 16.9:1 | 56% (398) |
| 2023-24 | 728 | 40.9 | 17.8:1 | 61% (445) |
| 2022-23 | 709 | 44.9 | 15.8:1 | 54% (384) |
| 2020-21 | 607 | 41 | 14.8:1 | 47% (287) |
| 2017-18 | 725 | 45.2 | 16.1:1 | 45% (324) |
| 2015-16 | 709 | 44 | 16.1:1 | 52% (368) |
| 2010-11 | 621 | 41 | 15.2:1 | 51% (315) |
| 2000-01 | 692 | 44 | 15.7:1 | 36% (246) |
| 1990-91 | 847 | 49 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Longfellow Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (725 to 708); teachers down 7% (45.2 to 41.9).
About Longfellow Middle School
Federal records list Longfellow Middle School as a middle-grades school in Norman, Oklahoma. Its 708 students are spread across grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 82% larger than the 388 average for middle schools in Oklahoma.
NORMAN is made up of 25 schools with 16,048 students in all.
Enrollment at Longfellow Middle School is mixed, with White students the largest group at 49%. The school is also 19% Hispanic, 19% multiracial, 7% Black, and 4% Native American. That is lower than the 70% White share among all Cleveland County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Longfellow Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 68%.
Teacher staffing is 41.9 full-time equivalents, or about 16.9 students per teacher. Among middle schools in Oklahoma, the typical ratio is 15.7:1. About 56% of students, or 398, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Longfellow Middle School is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 19% of Oklahoma public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Longfellow Middle School would be expected to post about 36.4%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 24.2%.
In Cleveland County (population about 300,047), median household income is about $77,068, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Longfellow Middle School is one of 72 public schools in Cleveland County, which together enroll about 45,218 students.
The school nearest to Longfellow Middle School is Jefferson Elementary School, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Within five miles of Longfellow Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 39.1%; Longfellow Middle School's is 24.2%, ranking 5th of 5.
Longfellow Middle School is coded as Suburb: Mid-size in federal locale data.
Federal counts put enrollment at 607 in 2020-21 and 708 in 2024-25, a 17% rise. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 14.8:1 to 16.9:1.
Discussion on this page can cover sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Cleveland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
300,047
Census ACS
Median income
$77,068
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
72
45,218 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NORMAN
- Norman North High SchoolHigh · 2,400 students
- Norman High SchoolHigh · 2,100 students
- Whittier Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,108 students
- Dimensions AcademyElementary · 738 students
- Irving Middle SchoolMiddle · 727 students
- Alcott Middle SchoolMiddle · 708 students
Other schools in Norman
- Norman North High SchoolHigh · 2,400 students
- Norman High SchoolHigh · 2,100 students
- Whittier Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,108 students
- Dimensions AcademyElementary · 738 students
- Irving Middle SchoolMiddle · 727 students
- Alcott Middle SchoolMiddle · 708 students
Other Longfellow Middle schools
6 other US public schools in 5 states are named Longfellow Middle. Longfellow Middle School is the 3rd largest of the 7.
- Longfellow Middle SchoolEnid, OK · 519 students
- Longfellow MiddleFalls Church, VA · 1,226 students
- Longfellow MiddleWauwatosa, WI · 782 students
- Longfellow MiddleLa Crosse, WI · 631 students
- Longfellow Middle SchoolSAN ANTONIO, TX · 597 students
Nearby schools
- Jefferson Elementary School0.2 mi · 331
- Wilson Elementary School0.4 mi · 212
- Dimensions Academy0.5 mi · 738
- Dimensions Academy0.5 mi · 561
- Lincoln Elementary School0.7 mi · 258
- Le Monde Elementary School0.7 mi · 459
Frequently asked questions
About Longfellow Middle SchoolHow many students attend Longfellow Middle School?
Longfellow Middle School enrolls approximately 708 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Longfellow Middle School serve?
Longfellow Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Longfellow Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Longfellow Middle School is approximately 16.9:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Longfellow Middle School?
At Longfellow Middle School, the student body is approximately 49% White, 19% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% Asian, 19% Two or more.
Is Longfellow Middle School public or private?
Longfellow Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by NORMAN.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.