Putnam City North High School

Putnam City North High School is a large high school found in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A federal count lists 1,567 students at the school, in grades 9 through 12. An average school in this group (high schools in Oklahoma) has about 443 students.

Putnam City North High School is one school in a 26-school district, PUTNAM CITY, which enrolls 18,836 students.

Putnam City North High School has no majority group; Black students are the largest, at 36%. Other students are 26% White, 16% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, and 8% Asian. By comparison, Oklahoma County residents are about 14% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 76% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Dividing enrollment by its 95.5 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 16.4:1. That is higher than the 15.4:1 average for high schools in Oklahoma. Eligible students account for 55% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Oklahoma County is 67%.

County data help place the school in context: in Oklahoma County, the median household income is $66,679, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. In all, Oklahoma County has 225 public schools and roughly 161,569 students.

Of nearby public schools, Dennis Elementary School is the closest, at about 0.3 miles. Putnam City North High School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.

Putnam City North High School had 1,533 students in 2020-21 and 1,567 in 2024-25, nearly the same. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 14.2:1 to 16.4:1.

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