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School district in Oklahoma From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mid-Del School District is a school district based in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. As of 2007, the school district included more than 14,500 K-12 students.[1]
Mid-Del Schools | |
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Location | |
United States | |
District information | |
Type | Public |
Grades | K-12 |
Superintendent | Dr. Rick Cobb |
Students and staff | |
Students | 14,500 |
Other information | |
Website | www |
The school district has grown from four original schools[2] to include 21 middle and elementary schools and three high schools at present.[3] It also includes the Mid-Del Technology Center, the only designated technology center in the state that shares a school board with a public school district.[4]
Within Oklahoma County, it includes most of Midwest City, almost all of Del City, all of Smith Village, most of Forest Park, and as well as a portion of Oklahoma City (including Tinker Air Force Base).[5] The district extends into Cleveland County, where it includes portions of Oklahoma City and Norman.[6]
The school district originated as a set of schools based solely in Midwest City, which consisted of prefabricated hutments with five teachers and 125 students.[2] It originally included four schools, two of which were precursors to Sooner Elementary School and Soldier Creek Elementary School.[2] A total of 1,250 students were enrolled in the second year of the school system.[2]
The first permanent school building was dedicated in 1944, after two years of using temporary buildings.[7] It cost $314,000 and was funded through the Lanham Act and Federal Works Agency.[7] The building today houses Jarman Middle School.[7]
Oscar Rose was an early superintendent of the school district and the namesake for Midwest City's community college, Rose State.[8]
In 2024 Rick Cobb, the superintendent of Mid-Del, accused Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction, of engaging in defamation against his school district by accusing the district of not properly spending funding from the federal government.[9] Cobb made his statement at a meeting of the Oklahoma State Board of Education.[10]
The Mid-Del School District has a total of 21 public schools and a career technology school.
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