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Jenks Public Schools
District details
School board members: 5
Students: 12,632 (2023-2024)
Schools: 8 (2023-2024)
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Jenks Public Schools is a school district in Oklahoma (Creek and Tulsa counties). During the 2024 school year, 12,632 students attended one of the district's eight schools.

This page provides information regarding school board members, election rules, finances, academics, policies, and more details about the district.

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Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 5

General election

Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 4

General election

Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 3

General election

Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 2

General election

General election for Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 2

Incumbent Terry Keeling defeated Ashley Cross in the general election for Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 2 on April 5, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Terry Keeling (Nonpartisan)	60.7	1,322
	Submit photo	Ashley Cross (Nonpartisan)	39.3	855

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Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 1

General election

Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 5

General election

The general election was canceled. Chuck Forbes (Nonpartisan) won without appearing on the ballot.

Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 4

General election

The general election was canceled. Ron B. Barber (Nonpartisan) won without appearing on the ballot.

Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 3

General election

The general election was canceled. Melissa Abdo (R) won without appearing on the ballot.

Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 2

General election

General election for Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 2

Incumbent Terry Keeling won election in the general election for Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 2 on February 14, 2017.

		Candidate
✔	Submit photo	Terry Keeling (Nonpartisan)

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Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 1

General election

General election for Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 1

Incumbent Tracy Kennedy won election in the general election for Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 1 on February 9, 2016.

		Candidate
✔		Tracy Kennedy (Nonpartisan)

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Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 5

General election

General election for Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 5

Incumbent Chuck Forbes won election in the general election for Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 5 on February 10, 2015.

		Candidate
✔		Chuck Forbes (Nonpartisan)

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Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 4

General election

General election for Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 4

Incumbent Ron B. Barber won election in the general election for Jenks Public Schools Board of Education Ward 4 on February 11, 2014.

		Candidate
✔		Ron B. Barber (Nonpartisan)

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Election rules

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Election dates and frequency

See also: Rules governing school board election dates and timing

School board nonpartisan primary elections in Oklahoma are held on the second Tuesday in February every year. School board primary elections are only held if more than two candidates run for a school board member seat. If two candidates run, the primary is canceled and both candidates advance to the general election.

School board general elections in Oklahoma are held on the first Tuesday in April every year.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Recent or upcoming election dates for all public school districts in the state

Below are the recent/upcoming dates for all public school districts in the state. There may be exceptions to these dates for specific districts because of local charters and district-specific exceptions and carve-outs.

• Filing deadline date: December 3, 2025
• Primary election date: February 10, 2026
• General election date: April 7, 2026

Election system

School board members in Oklahoma are elected through a system of a nonpartisan primary election and a nonpartisan general election. The primary election is only held if a large enough number of candidates run for office.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Party labels on the ballot

See also: Rules governing party labels in school board elections

School board elections in Oklahoma are nonpartisan, which means party labels do not appear on the ballot for school board candidates.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Winning an election

The top two school board candidates with the most votes in the nonpartisan primary advance to the general election as long as none of them receives more than 50% of the vote. If only two candidates file for the primary election, they automatically advance to the general election. If there are three or more candidates on the ballot for the primary election and one receives more than 50% of the vote, that candidate wins the election outright and is elected to office, and the general election is canceled.

The school board candidate with the most votes in the general election is elected to office. In Oklahoma, school board candidates can be elected outright in the nonpartisan primary election.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Term length and staggering

School districts with three board members have three-year board member terms. School districts with five members have five-year board member terms. School districts with seven members have four-year board member terms. Elementary school district board members have three-year terms. Independent school districts (which serve grades K-12) have school boards with five-year terms or four-year terms, depending on how many school board members they have. Districts with average student attendance of more than 30,000 can opt to elect a chair of the board in addition to other school board members. The chair must be elected at large to four-year terms. As of 2022, Oklahoma City Schools was the only district that had opted to have an additional elected chair of the school board.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Representation: at large vs. by sub-district

School districts either elect all regular school board members at large, or they elect all regular school board members from residence areas (sub-districts) with one board member elected by the voters of each sub-district. Elementary school districts must elect school board members at large. Any school district with an average daily student attendance of fewer than 1,800 students may choose to elect school board members at large instead of from sub-districts. Other school districts must elect school board members by sub-districts. Independent school districts that contain a city and for which less than 20% of the population of the school district resides outside of the city's limits may use the city's ward boundaries instead of drawing its own sub-district boundaries. Board members elected from sub-districts must reside within that sub-district when elected and for the duration of their terms. School districts with average student attendance of more than 30,000 can opt to elect a chair of the school board at large, which means that if other board members are elected by sub-district, that district would use a combination of elections at large and elections by sub-district elections.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Filing deadlines and swearing-in dates

The deadline for candidates to file for regular school board elections is the Wednesday following the first Monday in December in the year before the February primary election. Candidates must submit their filing by 5:00 pm on the day of the filing deadline.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §26-13A-110

Newly elected school board members officially take office at the first school board meeting taking place after the results of the election have been certified.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

 

About the district

School board

Jenks Public Schools consists of five members serving five-year terms. To find information about school board meetings, click here.

List of school board members

Name	Seat	Year assumed office	Year term ends
Chuck Forbes	Ward 5	2005	2030
Ron B. Barber	Ward 4	2004	2029
Melissa Abdo	Ward 3	2013	2028
Terry Keeling	Ward 2	2016	2027
Tracy Kennedy	Ward 1	2016	2026

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Overlapping state house districts

Jenks Public Schools

Office Name	Current Officeholder	Party	% School District Covered	% Other District Covered
Oklahoma House of Representatives District 68	Mike Lay	Republican Party	43%	45%
Oklahoma House of Representatives District 69	Mark Tedford	Republican Party	40%	76%
Oklahoma House of Representatives District 67	Rob Hall	Republican Party	10%	38%
Oklahoma House of Representatives District 70	Suzanne Schreiber	Democratic Party	4%	11%
Oklahoma House of Representatives District 71	Amanda Clinton	Democratic Party	3%	12%

The table was limited to the lower chamber because it provides the most granularity. State house districts tend to be more numerous and therefore smaller than state senate or U.S. House districts. This provides an impression of the partisan affiliations in the area.

Budget

The following statistics were published by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Education.

• Revenue
• Expenditures

Revenue, 2021-2022

SOURCE	AMOUNT	AMOUNT PER STUDENT	PERCENT
Federal:	$17,688,000	$1,413	11%
Local:	$86,599,000	$6,917	55%
State:	$52,776,000	$4,216	34%
Total:	$157,063,000	$12,546

Expenditures, 2021-2022

TYPE	AMOUNT	AMOUNT PER STUDENT	PERCENT
Total Expenditures:	$154,515,000	$12,342
Total Current Expenditures:	$123,320,000	$9,850
Instructional Expenditures:	$68,765,000	$5,492	45%
Student and Staff Support:	$16,842,000	$1,345	11%
Administration:	$14,691,000	$1,173	10%
Operations, Food Service, Other:	$23,022,000	$1,838	15%
Total Capital Outlay:	$24,459,000	$1,953
Construction:	$5,886,000	$470
Total Non El-Sec Education & Other:	$4,880,000	$389
Interest on Debt:	$1,838,000	$146

Academic performance

Each year, state and local education agencies use tests and other standards to assess student proficiency. Although the data below was published by the U.S. Department of Education, proficiency measurements are established by the states. As a result, proficiency levels are not comparable between different states and year-over-year proficiency levels within a district may not be comparable because states may change their proficiency measurements. To protect student privacy, percentages are reported as ranges for groups of 300 students or fewer. If five or fewer students were included in a data set, the data will display as "PS."

• Mathematics
• Reading/language arts
• Graduation rates

The following table shows the percentage of district students who scored at or above the proficiency level each school year:

School year	All (%)	Asian/Pacific Islander (%)	Black (%)	Hispanic (%)	Native American (%)	Two or More Races (%)	White (%)
2021-2022	35	43	13	21	28	25-29	40
2020-2021	34	41	12	21	29	20-24	39
2018-2019	43	50	18	28	33	41	50
2017-2018	42	42	17	30	34	42	50
2016-2017	45	47	19	31	37	44	53
2015-2016	76	71	49	63	74	78	84
2014-2015	78	74	55	62	78	65-69	86
2013-2014	77	77	55	63	76	65-69	85
2012-2013	81	80	61	66	81	75-79	88
2011-2012	81	78	62	63	75	70-79	87
2010-2011	81	80	60	66	78		87

The following table shows the percentage of district students who scored at or above the proficiency level each school year:

School year	All (%)	Asian/Pacific Islander (%)	Black (%)	Hispanic (%)	Native American (%)	Two or More Races (%)	White (%)
2021-2022	38	35	21	27	37	35-39	45
2020-2021	35	31	16	24	32	30-34	41
2018-2019	43	38	21	29	36	44	51
2017-2018	44	36	22	27	38	44	55
2016-2017	48	40	25	33	44	48	57
2015-2016	77	65	54	65	77	80	84
2014-2015	78	68	58	60	78	70-74	86
2013-2014	79	72	57	63	76	70-74	87
2012-2013	79	71	61	58	76	65-69	87
2011-2012	78	70	59	58	77	60-79	85
2010-2011	77	73	57	51	75		85

The following table shows the graduation rate of district students each school year:

School year	All (%)	Asian/Pacific Islander (%)	Black (%)	Hispanic (%)	Native American (%)	Two or More Races (%)	White (%)
2020-2021	91	90-94	70-79	85-89	85-89	>=50	95
2019-2020	92	85-89	80-84	80-84	90-94	PS	96
2018-2019	86	65-69	90-94	80-84	80-89	85-89	92
2017-2018	89	70-74	90-94	80-84	>=90	>=90	93
2016-2017	82	70-74	75-79	75-79	70-79	80-89	86
2015-2016	88	70-74	>=90	80-84	80-84	80-89	93
2014-2015	90	85-89	80-84	80-84	90-94	>=80	93
2013-2014	91	80-89	85-89	80-84	>=95	PS	93
2012-2013	88	80-89	70-79	80-89	80-84	>=50	91

Students

The following statistics were published by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Education.

• Enrollment
• Demographics

Year	Enrollment	Year-to-year change (%)
2023-2024	12,632	-0.2
2022-2023	12,654	1.1
2021-2022	12,519	4.3
2020-2021	11,979	-4.6
2019-2020	12,527	0.5
2018-2019	12,465	1.2
2017-2018	12,319	2.9
2016-2017	11,965	2.8
2015-2016	11,633	1.7
2014-2015	11,439	2.3
2013-2014	11,181	2.5
2012-2013	10,906	2.0
2011-2012	10,686	2.9
2010-2011	10,371	2.0
2009-2010	10,162	1.8
2008-2009	9,982	0.6
2007-2008	9,924	2.6
2006-2007	9,668	2.5
2005-2006	9,426	1.8
2004-2005	9,257	-0.8
2003-2004	9,331	0.3
2002-2003	9,300	-0.3
2001-2002	9,330	1.0
2000-2001	9,240	0.4
1999-2000	9,200	0.0

Racial Demographics, 2023-2024

RACE	Jenks Public Schools (%)	Oklahoma K-12 STUDENTS (%)
American Indian/Alaska Native	7.7	10.9
Asian or Asian/Pacific Islander	16.7	2.3
Black	6.7	7.8
Hispanic	13.8	20.5
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander	0.1	0.5
Two or More Races	8.5	13.5
White	46.5	44.5

Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

Staff

The following statistics were published by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Education.

• Teachers
• Administrators
• Other staff

As of the 2023-2024 school year, Jenks Public Schools had 733.39 full-time classroom teachers. The student-teacher ratio was 17.22.

Teachers, 2023-2024 school year

TYPE	NUMBER OF TEACHERS
Prekindergarten:	32.25
Kindergarten:	30.25
Elementary:	383.60
Secondary:	287.29
Total:	733.39

Jenks Public Schools employed 7.00 district administrators and 35.00 school administrators as of the 2023-2024 school year.

Administrators, 2023-2024 school year

TYPE	NUMBER OF ADMINISTRATORS
District Administrators:	7.00
District Administrative Support:	82.54
School Administrators:	35.00
School Administrative Support:	65.82

Other staff, 2023-2024 school year

TYPE	NUMBER OF OTHER STAFF
Instructional Aides:	256.12
Instruc. Coordinators & Supervisors:	9.50
Total Guidance Counselors:	31.42
Elementary Guidance Counselors:	14.92
Secondary Guidance Counselors:	16.50
Librarians/Media Specialists:	12.00
Library/Media Support:	6.00
Student Support Services:	184.44
Other Support Services:	253.20

Schools

The following statistics were published by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Education.

Jenks Public Schools operates eight schools. They are listed below in alphabetical order.

List of schools

SCHOOL NAME	NUMBER OF STUDENTS	GRADES
Jenks East Es	1,427	PK-4
Jenks East Intermediate Es	820	5-6
Jenks Hs	3,577	9-12
Jenks Ms	1,884	7-8
Jenks West Es	2,017	PK-4
Jenks West Intermediate Es	1,075	5-6
Northwest Es	1,000	PK-4
Southeast Es	832	PK-4

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