STIGLER MS

As a tight-knit 6-8 campus in Stigler, Oklahoma, STIGLER MS hosts 320 students from grades 5 through 8, one of the schools within STIGLER.

STIGLER MS is one of 3 schools operated by STIGLER, a district that caters to 1,150 students overall.

Demographically, STIGLER MS records that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 34% Native American, 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Haskell County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, STIGLER MS has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. The state averages around 15.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), STIGLER MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.6%; this one delivers 30.3%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Haskell County shows median household earnings sit near $49,806, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Haskell County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,148 students), STIGLER MS is one campus in the mix.

STIGLER HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. STIGLER MS's enrollment has edged down 20% since 2018, when it stood at 400 (now 320). Over the same period, the White share fell from 57% to 48%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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