Public school / Middle
Ponca City West Ms
Ponca City, Oklahoma
- NCES ID
- 402469002124
- District
- Ponca City
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Ponca City West Ms is a public middle school in Ponca City, Oklahoma, run by Ponca City. It enrols 686 students — the 20184th largest of 1,807 public schools in Oklahoma.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
686
Teachers
41.0
Students per teacher
16.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
75.9%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Ponca City
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Ponca City Hs1,427 students
- 2Ponca City West Ms686 students
- 3Ponca City East Ms353 students
- 4Lincoln Es334 students
- 5Woodlands Es281 students
- 6Roosevelt Es277 students
- 7E. M. Trout Es265 students
- 8Union Es263 students
- Enrollment+113.4%
- Teachers+115.8%
- Students per teacher+3.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+15.5%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory