Seeking Good High School

None of the Public schools are small in any way. I'm also going to say that the private schools are running to capacity. For the best education choose a home in the Jenks School district, Union would come in 2nd in my choices. Both are Public and have student populations of over 500 per grade.

If money isn't an issue and neither is religion, Cassia Hall and Monte Cassino are the best for the money but still quite large. The Church of Christ the King is much smaller but there are churches all over that have schools as well.

I went the Sand Springs schools and I have a son graduating from there this spring. I'm partial to the Honors and AP classes there because when I moved from Tulsa Central Highschool, classes were much harder and wonderfully challenging.

Sand Springs has a very high crime rate though ( the juvenile correctional centere L.E. Rader is within the city limits and accounts for 50% of the crime rate.) and is considered mostly rural because of the undeveloped areas the school system provides for.

All the highschools in the area have their problems with drugs and drinking as well as gangs and stuff. That's going to happen anywhere that there are more than one ethnicity attending until we raise our kids with more tolerance for human kind.

I'd say that Jenks, Union and Broken Arrow all have more money to spend on students per capita because of property prices and dedication to the school's sports programs.

Good luck making a decision. I grew up here and couldn't decide where to live until we found this house in the summer of 2005.

I ditto Jenks (but from your profile it looks like you're already there?!) and BA - but I'd veto Union - they are quickly falling in rank with Tulsa Public on academic lists. Check out the schools websites - most of them have their academic reports available online. I attended Jenks and Broken Arrow, my husband attended Union - he feels the same way I do about Union's falling (except he's more disgusted by it considering they have a higher tax base than just about any other school, so they don't have lack of money as an excuse for failure). We have a daughter in Glenpool Elementary (just south of Jenks) but have been considering requesting a transfer to Jenks if Glenpool doesn't get busy adding options for the kids (like swimming, etc.). It is a smaller school, if that's what you're looking for, and the area is growing quickly, so the school's going to have to grow to keep up. Owasso may be an option for you, too - though I don't know anyone personally with experience there. It's a quickly growing suburb of Tulsa. Here's some websites for you:

www.jenksps.org
www.unionps.org
www.ba.k12.ok.us
www.owasso.k12.ok.us
www.glenpool.k12.ok.us
http://sde.state.ok.us/home/defaultie.html - This is the Oklahoma State Dept of Education - there you can find links to all sorts of info - check the Report Cards link on the left to take you to even more ...

We only have one in public school, the others are homeschooled.

Did you find a school as Jenks is a good school system

i'm not a big fan of tulsa public schools. however there are a few magnet and private schools ive heard good things about. booker t washington is one. if you dont mind the religious aspects of a private school i've heard that bishop kelley and cascia hall are great as well, but they are fairly pricey. i went to memorial high school in tulsa and it wasnt completely ghetto but i just felt that it was way too big to give each child the guidance and attention they deserved. im a bigger fan of suburban school such as bixby, glenpool or jenks.