Original Research by School Decision on Crooked Oak Hs
Crooked Oak High School serves grades nine through twelve in Oklahoma City, within the Crooked Oak Public Schools district. The school is located at 1901 Southeast 15th Street, in the southeastern part of the city. Oklahoma City itself is a sprawling state capital with a mixed-use character, combining a dense downtown core with vast stretches of residential suburbs, ranchland, and industrial zones. The economy is anchored by oil and gas, federal employment at Tinker Air Force Base, livestock markets, and aviation. The city has invested heavily in downtown revitalization through its MAPS program, but outside the core, development is auto-oriented and spread across a very large land area.
Crooked Oak High School is a small high school, serving grades nine through twelve with a total enrollment that is modest for its grade band. The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a much smaller share of Black students and a small white population. The school is not a charter school. State testing data was not available for this school, so a parent looking for a direct measure of academic performance in reading, math, and science will not find it in the data we have. The four-year graduation rate was also not available. A parent may want to ask the school or district directly for these figures, as they are common reference points for high school performance.
The school sits within the Crooked Oak Public Schools district. We looked for recent district-level changes or strategic priorities that would matter to a family, such as boundary adjustments, program additions, or facility plans, but found little publicly reported in the last several years. The district brief turned up only basic profile and fiscal data, so we left it out rather than guess.
Housing in the immediate area around the school is notably affordable relative to national benchmarks. Home values in the zip code are well below the state average, and rents are also below the national norm. The estimated monthly mortgage payment on a typical home is modest, and rent as a share of income is low, suggesting that housing costs are not a heavy burden for most households in this part of Oklahoma City. Home values in the zip code have seen a slight decline over the past year, while rents have risen modestly.
The student body is heavily Hispanic, with a much smaller Black population and a small white population. The school is not a charter school. Information on the share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, the number of students with disabilities, and the number of English learners was not available. Similarly, data on discipline, course access, staffing ratios, and chronic absenteeism was not provided. A parent may want to ask the school directly about these areas, as they shape the daily experience and support available.
Because the school serves only high school grades, there are no state testing results from earlier grades to draw on. The comparison data that would place Crooked Oak High School against other districts in Oklahoma County on proficiency, graduation rate, and chronic absenteeism was not available, so we cannot say how it compares to its neighbors on those measures. The school is part of the Crooked Oak district, which is a small district within the larger Oklahoma City area. We looked for recent district-level changes that would affect families, such as boundary shifts or program additions, but found nothing publicly reported in the last several years.
For a family considering this school, the picture is one of a small high school in a very large, sprawling city, serving a predominantly Hispanic student body in a part of Oklahoma City where housing is affordable. The lack of state testing data and graduation rate information means that a parent will need to seek those figures directly from the school or district to get a clear sense of academic outcomes. The school's size and composition are plain characteristics; some families may value a smaller setting, while others may want more information on course offerings and support services before making a decision.
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