PURCELL JHS

PURCELL JHS is one of the close-knit intermediate schools in Purcell, Oklahoma, overseen by PURCELL, with 310 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 20% below the typical public school in Oklahoma, which averages around 388 students.

PURCELL JHS is one of 4 schools operated by PURCELL, a district that educates 1,463 students overall.

On the student-mix side, PURCELL JHS logs that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 30% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 7% Native American. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.7:1 average. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than McClain County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PURCELL JHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.2%, the actual is 33.0%, a residual of -1.2 points.

Around the school, McClain County reports that median household earnings sit near $84,552, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. PURCELL JHS is one of 21 public schools in McClain County (combined enrollment of about 8,736 students).

PURCELL HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around PURCELL JHS. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PURCELL JHS ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 24.6%.

PURCELL JHS operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. PURCELL JHS's enrollment has grew 13% since 2018, when it stood at 274 (now 310). The White share of enrollment fell from 56% to 45% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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