Pathways TO opportunity
2022-2027 Strategic Plan for tulsa Public schools
Pathways to Opportunity is the culmination of many candid community conversations, insights and suggestions from every corner of our city, and the very best thinking of our system’s educators, school leaders, support professionals, parents, students, partners, and advocates. This plan represents our promises to the people of Tulsa:
- Our schools will be places in which students can find and grow into the best version of themselves.
- Our students will become powerful readers, writers, speakers, and thinkers for whom language is a life-long asset.
- Our high schools will prepare young adults for a rich, choice-filled life.
Schools have always been the beating heart of vital communities, and Pathways to Opportunity is designed to create robust foundations for children to learn, grow, thrive, and achieve their greatest potential in college, careers, skilled trades, or military service.
Click below to read about our strategies
board goals and guardrails
The letters “X” and “Y” indicate placeholders for the targets and baselines that the Tulsa Board of Education will be set before the start of the 2022-2023 school year.
Goals
The Tulsa Board of Education established three broad goals that represent the most important expectations our community holds for our school system. Between 2022-2027, these goals will be the measurable accomplishments upon which we will focus and that will serve as our collective North Star.
Guardrails
Our guardrails are the community values - expressed as strong statements of protection - that Tulsa Public Schools will uphold and respect. Guardrails complement our goals: goals establish our strategic direction and guardrails set boundaries on the methods we use to achieve those goals.
Our Schools
45
Elementary Schools
10
Middle Schools
9
High Schools
7
Alternative Schools
6
District-Authorized Charter Schools
1
Virtual School
21
School sites offering 46 career and technology education programs including broadcasting, culinary arts, cybersecurity, web design, construction, and engineering
11
Dual language schools
- 2 One-Way Dual Language Schools:
- 7 Two-Way Dual Language Schools:
- 2 Immersion Dual Language Schools:
12
HIGH SCHOOLS offering concurrent enrollment through our local higher education institutions
4
HIGH SCHOOLS with embedded Tulsa Tech career-ready programs
3
SCHOOLS offering early college high school programs
McLain High School
Memorial High School
Will Rogers College High School
Our 5,272 Team Members*
Racial/Ethnic
Distribution of Our Team*
- 26% Black
- 5% American Indian or Alaska Native
- 2% Asian/Pacific Islander
- 12% Hispanic/Latinx
- 54% White
*As of January 18, 2024
3rd Largest Employer
in the Tulsa Area*
Student demographics
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36% Multilingual learners*
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13% students with disabilities
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13% gifted and talented
Student Race/ethnicity
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38% Hispanic/Latinx
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22% Black
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21% white
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11% multiracial
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4% American Indian or Alaska Native
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3% Asian/Pacific islander
As of Oct. 2023
*Represents both current and former multilingual learners
MISSION
Our students lead through literacy, are empowered through experience, and contribute to their community.
VISION
Tulsa Public Schools honors the diversity, creativity, and passion of our students, elevating every student to be designers of their destiny.
The development of this plan
Tulsa Board of Education begins community engagement, completing 35 listening sessions to understand our community's expectations for Tulsa Public Schools.
30-person community committee created to guide the development of Pathways to Opportunity.
Tulsa Board of Education votes to adopt a mission, vision, goals, and a measurement plan for Pathways of Opportunity.
30-person community committee approves six core strategies.
Tulsa Public Schools hosts more than a dozen community engagement sessions to share the draft strategic plan and collect feedback.