SANKOFA MIDDLE SCHOOL

SANKOFA MIDDLE SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of one-room-style scale in Tulsa, Oklahoma, overseen by SANKOFA CHARTER SCHOOL, works with 82 students in grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Oklahoma's public schools average about 366 students each, so SANKOFA MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 78% below that benchmark.

Operationally, SANKOFA MIDDLE SCHOOL answers to SANKOFA CHARTER SCHOOL, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, SANKOFA MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (91%). Other groups include 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Tulsa County as a whole is about 10% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages about 15.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Tulsa County's rate of about 62%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SANKOFA MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.5%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Tulsa County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,009 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Tulsa County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,616 students), SANKOFA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DEBORAH BROWN CHARTER ES, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SANKOFA MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SANKOFA MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.0%.

The school occupies an urban site. SANKOFA MIDDLE SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SANKOFA MIDDLE SCHOOL has decreased 32%, going from 120 students in 2018 to 82 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 98% to 91%. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.0:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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