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.Midwest City-Del City School District, Education.com (accessed June 8, 2010).
The school district has grown from four original schools to include 21 middle and elementary schools and three high schools at present.Midwest City - Del City School District , Trulia Real Estate Search (accessed June 8, 2010). 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.Mid-Del Technology Center Profile , Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education (accessed June 8, 2010).
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). The district extends into Cleveland County, where it includes portions of Oklahoma City and Norman. - Text list
History 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. It originally included four schools, two of which were precursors to Sooner Elementary School and Soldier Creek Elementary School. A total of 1,250 students were enrolled in the second year of the school system.
The first permanent school building was dedicated in 1944, after two years of using temporary buildings. It cost $314,000 and was funded through the Lanham Act and Federal Works Agency. The building today houses Jarman Middle School.
Oscar Rose was an early superintendent of the school district and the namesake for Midwest City's community college, Rose State.
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. Cobb made his statement at a meeting of the Oklahoma State Board of Education.
Schools The Mid-Del School District has a total of 21 public schools and a career technology school.
High schools Carl Albert High School, Midwest City, Oklahoma Del City High School, Del City, Oklahoma Midwest City High School, Midwest City, Oklahoma
Middle schools Carl Albert Middle School, Midwest City, Oklahoma Midwest City Middle School, Midwest City, Oklahoma Del City Middle School, Del City, Oklahoma
Elementary schools Barnes Elementary School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Cleveland Bailey Elementary School, Midwest City, Oklahoma Country Estates Elementary School, Midwest City, Oklahoma Del City Elementary School, Del City, Oklahoma Epperly Heights Elementary School, Del City, Oklahoma Highland Park Elementary School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Midwest City Elementary School, Midwest City, Oklahoma Parkview Elementary School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Pleasant Hill Early Childhood Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Ridgecrest Elementary School, Midwest City, Oklahoma Schwartz Elementary School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Soldier Creek Elementary School, Midwest City, Oklahoma Steed Elementary School, Midwest City, Oklahoma Tinker Elementary School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Townsend Elementary School, Del City, Oklahoma
Technology Centers Mid-Del Technology Center, Midwest City, Oklahoma
Notable alumni J. T. Realmuto (born 1991), a Major League Baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies. He went to Carl Albert Highschool Jason Taylor II (born 1999), a National Football League safety for the Kansas City Chiefs. He went to Carl Albert Highschool Dadrion Taylor-Demerson (born 2001), a National Football League safety for the Arizona Cardinals. He went to Carl Albert Highschool J.D. Runnels (born 1984), an American football coach and former fullback for the Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Cincinnati Bengals, and the Florida Tuskers. He went to Carl Albert Highschool.
See also List of school districts in Oklahoma
References
External links Mid-Del Schools Mid-Del Schools Foundation District Map