OKLA YOUTH ACADEMY HS-TECUMSEH

OKLA YOUTH ACADEMY HS-TECUMSEH operates as a micro-enrollment high school in Tecumseh, Oklahoma, overseen by OKLAHOMA YOUTH ACADEMY (CHARTER). Current enrollment sits at 49 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 89% below the typical public school in Oklahoma, which averages around 443 students.

OKLA YOUTH ACADEMY HS-TECUMSEH sits inside OKLAHOMA YOUTH ACADEMY (CHARTER), the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, OKLA YOUTH ACADEMY HS-TECUMSEH logs that the largest single group is Black, at 57% of enrollment. Other groups include 22% White, 10% Native American, 8% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 3%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, OKLA YOUTH ACADEMY HS-TECUMSEH reports 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 4.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting OKLA YOUTH ACADEMY HS-TECUMSEH tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Pottawatomie County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Pottawatomie County indicate median household income runs about $61,398, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Pottawatomie County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,326 students), OKLA YOUTH ACADEMY HS-TECUMSEH is one campus in the mix.

CROSS TIMBERS ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around OKLA YOUTH ACADEMY HS-TECUMSEH.

The school occupies a low-density site. OKLA YOUTH ACADEMY HS-TECUMSEH is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 25%: 65 students in 2018 compared to 49 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged down from 15% to 8% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 6.0:1 in 2018 to 4.9:1 today.

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