UNION 8TH GRADE CTR

UNION 8TH GRADE CTR is a well-populated middle school in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, one of the schools within UNION. The school serves 1,100 students in grade 8. Enrollment runs roughly 184% bigger than the state mean of about 388.

UNION comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 14,950 students; UNION 8TH GRADE CTR is among them.

On the student-mix side, UNION 8TH GRADE CTR records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 22% White, 15% Black, 11% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.7:1 average. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Tulsa County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), UNION 8TH GRADE CTR performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.6%, the actual is 21.3%, a residual of -9.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Tulsa County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,009 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tulsa County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,616 students), UNION 8TH GRADE CTR is one campus in the mix.

MCAULIFFE ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around UNION 8TH GRADE CTR. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), UNION 8TH GRADE CTR ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 27.5%.

UNION 8TH GRADE CTR operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 1,197 students in 2018 compared to 1,100 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 35% to 42% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

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