Cooper Middle School in Oklahoma City
Kenneth Cooper Middle School is a public educational institution in Oklahoma City that serves sixth to eighth-grade students. The school was named after Dr. Kenneth Cooper, a medical doctor and Air Force colonel from Oklahoma who has done extensive work in the field of physical fitness and exercise.
Kenneth Cooper Middle School of Oklahoma City currently handles over 800 students. The student-teacher ratio is 15:1, about the same as the state average. More than half of the student population are Whites, around 30 percent are Blacks, eight percent are Hispanics, and a much smaller minority are Asians, Pacific Islanders,American Indians, and Alaskan natives.
In the 2006 Oklahoma Core Curriculum Tests (OCCT), Grade 6 and Grade 7 students of Kenneth Cooper Middle School scored above state average in Reading and Math. Eighth-graders though scored two percent lower than the Oklahoma state average in the same subjects.