Best Public School District to raise two teenagers

[OSUFan]

Never mind. Pointless.

[Bellaboo]

Penny that's good information but it doesn't really cover the school area. Just some old legacy farms and the walmart\lowes\ main drag of fast food placed. Like you said the actual town of Mustang is small and concentrated but it pulls from a large and very poor area. Just like yukon.

Wrong. One of the richest men in the state lives in Yukon in a 32,000 sq foot home....(Palace)
My guess is that you really haven't been in Yukon. What you don't realize is that there are no slums in Yukon. And the schools are in the upper percentile for the metro.
You've lost all credibility my friend.

I'll go out on a limb here, but I personally know 18 millionaires in my addition in Yukon. But on the other hand, a million bucks isn't what it used to be either.

[ylouder]

I guess your referring to the sprawling express personnel ranch owned by funk. This working ranch fits into the description of what I said about legacy farms in the area. I'm sure his multi millionare income helps the demographic wage of the area but has little to do with the schools...

Or the poor overall performance of the students in comparison to other suburb and city schools.

I was in yukon a few months back at the outlet mall and we at the green chili kitchen before coming home. food was OK but I doubt we'll be back any time soon

[ljbab728]

I guess your referring to the sprawling express personnel ranch owned by funk. This working ranch fits into the description of what I said about legacy farms in the area. I'm sure his multi millionare income helps the demographic wage of the area but has little to do with the schools...

Or the poor overall performance of the students in comparison to other suburb and city schools.

I was in yukon a few months back at the outlet mall and we at the green chili kitchen before coming home. food was OK but I doubt we'll be back any time soon

If you were at the outlet mall you weren't in Yukon. That is in OKC about 2 1/2 miles from the nearest part of the Yukon city limits.

[ylouder]

If you were at the outlet mall you weren't in Yukon. That is in OKC about 2 1/2 miles from the nearest part of the Yukon city limits.

You completely omitted that I said I was at a restaurant off route 66 in the heart of yukon a few words later.

[Zuplar]

You completely omitted that I said I was at a restaurant off route 66 in the heart of yukon a few words later.

I think his point is you seem to be getting parts of West OKC confused with Mustang and Yukon. And this time the area surround the outlet mall is not Yukon schools, they are Western Heights.

[Bellaboo]

Everything South of I-40 is OKC city limits and the majority is Mustang Schools. Everything East of Mustang Road up to Vandament (23rd) is OKC city limits.

Like I said, he's lost all credibility with me. I won't read anymore of his foolishness.

[PennyQuilts]

I thought Mustang schools went to County line? Mustang Road pretty much splits Mustang. Do you mean north of the city limits?

[PennyQuilts]

Mustang Education Ctr Mustang, OK School Boundaries Map & School Profile

I think this link has a map in it.

[Bellaboo]

I thought Mustang schools went to County line? Mustang Road pretty much splits Mustang. Do you mean north of the city limits?

I re-stated OKC as referencing city limits. Sorry.

[ylouder]

A lot of people who have said I know nothing about the area turn around and show their own lack of knowledge of the school boundaries. Interesting.

I don’t have time to pull everything out, I tried to make an easier to read chart showing the layout of the metro schools. But Yukon is on par with places like Bethany, bethel, Jones, and Mustang. In fact even a place like Union City far exceeds those school systems.

http://www.ok.gov/sde/sites/ok.gov.s...y_School_0.pdf

A lot better choices around the metro for student outcomes.

[Zuplar]

I thought Mustang schools went to County line? Mustang Road pretty much splits Mustang. Do you mean north of the city limits?

Mustang schools go a half mile east past county line road.

[Bellaboo]

A lot of people who have said I know nothing about the area turn around and show their own lack of knowledge of the school boundaries. Interesting.

I don’t have time to pull everything out, I tried to make an easier to read chart showing the layout of the metro schools. But Yukon is on par with places like Bethany, bethel, Jones, and Mustang. In fact even a place like Union City far exceeds those school systems.
http://www.ok.gov/sde/sites/ok.gov.s...y_School_0.pdf

A lot better choices around the metro for student outcomes.

Okay,
I'll bite. I took a look at a lot of those schools on the list, like you referenced Union City. How about Mulhall Orlando, etc. Just how many foreign languages, pre AP classes (math, science, arts) do you think those dinky places have ?
My step son went through Yukon Schools, Scored a composite 32 with a high of 35 in mathematics on his ACT, and now has been with Exxon Mobil in their R&D for the past 5 years. Not sure if he'd done that well in a smaller district, but he excelled at Yukon.
To sum it up, the house across the street from me sold 2 years ago for $300,000.00 to a family from El Reno. They happen to own a few motels out on I-40. They never moved in, but they do come over monthly to check it out. The reason they bought the house was for their kids to go to Yukon Schools. If Union City is better, why didn't they buy some backwater dump house there ?

Like I said, there are a few on this board who are totally ignorant.

I'll tell you how ignorant you are - that ACT list you posted, only has 6 or 7 schools out of the 150 or so on the list that has a higher composite score than Yukon.....It is an average score they are listing, and do you think that possibly only 3 or 4 kids from the one small school took the test ? which would skew the results due to low applicants ?

[ylouder]

Okay,

I'll tell you how ignorant you are - that ACT list you posted, only has 6 or 7 schools out of the 150 or so on the list that has a higher composite score than Yukon.....It is an average score they are listing, and do you think that possibly only 3 or 4 kids from the one small school took the test ? which would skew the results due to low applicants ?

If you only counted 6 or 7 then you need to use your toes to count on.
Maybe it's to be expected.

The number you are looking for is 31. 31 schools have higher scores and after Yukon highschool comes Beaver Oklahoma next on the list.

Beaver Oklahoma is the cow chipping capital of the world. Congratulations.


http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2188

[Pete]

Guys, let's please tone this down.

You can disagree and debate without getting personal.

[Bellaboo]

You are worse than I thought. You must not have the capacity to comprehend statistics. These little schools are skewed. If it was weighted, Yukon would be 6 or 7 from the top.
This list contained over 400 schools.....and you said they are 31 ? Not bad even using skewed stats.

Stop being so small minded......but then again, it's hard to be something you aren't.

[ylouder]

What's with the personal insults. Geesh.

I just provided the results of the students that DID take the Act test. Just imagine the results if this included people from the area who did not take the test and had no plans to go to college after highschool - if they even stayed to graduate. Yukon and mustang dropout rates are very high.

Clearly there are numerous more educated and higher performing schools around the metro.

[Martin]

Stop being so small minded......but then again, it's hard to be something you aren't.

again, let's keep the discussion civil. -M

[PennyQuilts]

This is the internet version of a small town football rivalry.

[Zuplar]

For those that don't know, this may be an opportunity to use the ignore feature. If you get in settings it's on the left side towards the bottom. Just enter the username of the person you want to ignore and boom, it all goes away.

[warreng88]

What's with the personal insults. Geesh.

Clearly there are numerous more educated and higher performing schools around the metro.

I think all started with this comment:

Mustang is gross. Lots of meth, teen moms, and oilfield trash.

We personally chose to stay away from west okc after spending a couple of days driving around looking for homes.

It's just a weird side of town.

And then this one:

Most of the residents probably have less than a highschool diploma and are generally heavy blue collar outdoor workers or on welfare. The type that have bull testicles on the back of their trucks, park in their front yards, and are at the stop slights in town rolling coal (youtube it) in a beat up late model truck.

I feel like that is when the whole tone of this thread changed; when you started making insults to the areas that people might live in. I don't live in Mustang and have no interest in ever moving there, but I have plenty of college educated, professional, family-oriented friends who live there for the schools or that is where they were brought up.

[ylouder]

I'm sorry if anyone doesn't like any of my personal experiences with the area and with the school statistics provided by the state.

But you can't really change either of them.

[Martin]

I'm sorry if anyone doesn't like any of my personal experiences with the area and with the school statistics provided by the state.

...but you can choose to voice those personal experiences in a constructive way. -M

[Urbanized]

I wish a thread could be excluded from the results when I click the "latest posts" button.

[betts]

I'd send my teenagers to Classen (if I had teenagers) or if they were good enough in science and/or math, to the High School of Science and Math. Those are both schools that we can be proud of.