SANTA FE SOUTH MS

SANTA FE SOUTH MS is a heavily attended junior high in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, operated by SANTA FE SOUTH CHARTER. The school caters to 738 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 388 students per school, that is 90% bigger than typical.

Across the 10 schools in SANTA FE SOUTH CHARTER (4,620 students total), SANTA FE SOUTH MS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, SANTA FE SOUTH MS records that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, SANTA FE SOUTH MS has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.7:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at SANTA FE SOUTH MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Oklahoma County's rate of about 67%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SANTA FE SOUTH MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.8%, the actual is 35.0%, a residual of +12.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Oklahoma County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,679 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Oklahoma County's 225 public schools (combined enrollment of about 161,569 students), SANTA FE SOUTH MS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SANTA FE SOUTH HS, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SANTA FE SOUTH MS. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SANTA FE SOUTH MS ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 36.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. As a public charter, SANTA FE SOUTH MS runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 22%: 607 students in 2018 compared to 738 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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