OWASSO 8TH GRADE CTR

OWASSO 8TH GRADE CTR is a middle school of sizable scale in Owasso, Oklahoma, one of the schools within OWASSO, works with 782 students in grade 8. Enrollment runs roughly 102% above the state mean of about 388.

Within OWASSO, which oversees 13 schools and 9,761 students, OWASSO 8TH GRADE CTR is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, OWASSO 8TH GRADE CTR reports that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 16% multiracial, 16% Hispanic, 6% Native American, 6% Asian. By comparison, Tulsa County as a whole is about 61% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, OWASSO 8TH GRADE CTR lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.7:1 average. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Tulsa County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, OWASSO 8TH GRADE CTR performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.0%, the actual is 29.3%, a residual of -12.7 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Tulsa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,009 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Tulsa County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,616 students), OWASSO 8TH GRADE CTR is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: OWASSO HS, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), OWASSO 8TH GRADE CTR ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 5%: 742 students in 2018 compared to 782 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 60% to 52% across the same window.

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