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Pandemic prompts enrollment decline for Owasso Public Schools, other districts statewide

Owasso back to school

Students at the Owasso 7th Grade Center look on in a class during the first day of in-person classes on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020.

Art Haddaway

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In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Oklahoma’s annual student count shows its first decrease in overall public school enrollment in 19 years.

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Art Haddaway with Owasso Reporter and Andrea Eger with Tulsa World contributed to this story.

OPS 2020-21 enrollment decreases

• Ator: -52

• Bailey: -90

• Barnes: -52

• Hodson: -15

• Mills: -65

• Morrow: -68

• Northeast: -45

• Smith: -79

• Stone Canyon: -82

• 6GC: -35

• 7GC: -30

• 8GC: -9

• OHS: -120

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