Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS) is a multi-cultural district serving approximately 33,000 students. Students are educated throughout 31 elementary schools, 14 middle schools, 8 high schools, 4 alternative schools and 7 charter schools located within 135.5 square miles in the center of Oklahoma.
Subscription schools were the first schools in Oklahoma Territory, but public schools began to emerge in the 1890s, shortly before 1907 statehood. By 1909, Oklahoma City had ten public school buildings.[2] By 1930 the city had three high schools, six junior high schools, and 51 elementary schools with an enrollment of 38,593.[2]
Rogers Middle School, named for banker and school board member Melvin Parmer Rogers[4]
Emerson South Mid-high School
FD Moon Middle School, named for Frederick Douglass Moon who was principal of Frederick A. Douglass High School in Oklahoma City[5]
Wheeler Middle School
Capitol Hill Middle School
Classen School of Advanced Studies Middle School
Webster Middle School
Southeast Middle School
Mary Golda Ross Middle School
Elementary schools
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Adams Elementary School
Adelaide Lee Elementary School - The district plans to open a replacement facility in 2026, which would cost $29,330,000.[6]
Arthur Elementary School
Bodine Elementary School
Britton Elementary School
Buchanan Elementary School
César Chávez Elementary School
Cleveland Elementary School
Coolidge Elementary School
Esperanza Elementary School
Eugene Field Elementary School
Fillmore Elementary School
Hawthorne Elementary School
Hayes Elementary School
Heronville Elementary School
Hillcrest Elementary School
Kaiser Elementary School
Mark Twain Elementary School
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School
Monroe Elementary School
Nichols Hills Elementary School
Prairie Queen Elementary School
Quail Creek Elementary School
Ridgeview Elementary School
Rockwood Elementary School
Southern Hills Elementary School
Spencer Elementary School
Thelma Parks Elementary school
Van Buren Elementary School
Willow Brook Elementary School
Wilson Elementary School
Early Childhood Education Centers
Gatewood Early Learning Center
Pre-K
Pre-K Center at Horace Mann
Pre-K Center at Johnson
Former schools
Shidler Elementary School - The district intended to close that school in 2026 and move all students to Adelaide Lee Elementary School, which was to have a new building at that time. However in 2023 an issue with the building's structure caused the district to move many of the students to Adelaide Lee Elementary. In 2023 the district's board of education voted to immediately close the entire Shidler Elementary permanently and move all students to Adelaide Lee Elementary; the district decided that using only part of the Shidler Elementary facility would cause problems. That year the district was considering whether to repair the Shidler building and use it for another purpose.[6]
12Wilson, Linda D. "Oklahoma City" "Oklahoma City". Archived from the original on May 25, 2011. Retrieved December 12, 2014., Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture (accessed April 19, 2013)
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