Mid-Del Public Schools

Two towns in one name

Mid-Del is two town names clipped short and set side by side, Midwest City first and Del City second. The order in the name happens to match the order on the calendar. This district was holding classes for years before the second town in its name had a single finished house.

Midwest City High School opened in 1942 and 1943, while the base and the town were going up around it. The district's first classes met in prefabricated buildings, and the district dedicated its first permanent school building in 1944. Del City's first houses were not ready until January 1947.

If you want the city's side of the base story, the Midwest City page tells it. This page stays with the schools.

Del City came to a district already running

Del City incorporated in October 1948, less than two years after those first houses were finished. It became a town inside a school district that already had a high school and a permanent building behind it.

The district opened Del City High School in 1953, about a decade after Midwest City High School. From that point the younger town had a high school with its own name over the door, and it has kept one ever since.

The name reached the middle grades much later. In 2020 the district closed two middle schools and renamed two others for their towns, which is how Del City Middle School and Midwest City Middle School got the names they carry now. A town that showed up after the district now has its name on the district itself and on three of its schools.

This site has no separate Del City page. For a family looking at houses in Del City, this is the page to start from.

Named to match

Mid-Del runs nineteen schools for about twelve thousand students, and the Mid-Del Technology Center shares a school board with the district. Above the elementary level, the buildings pair off by name.

Midwest City Middle School leads into Midwest City High School, and Del City Middle School leads into Del City High School. Carl Albert Middle School does the same for Carl Albert High School, a pair that carries a person's name where the other two carry a town's. That matching is how the district chose to name its own buildings. Which pair a particular house sits under is a separate question, and the names alone will not answer it.

Below the middle schools are thirteen elementaries, and that count came down on purpose. In 2022 the district closed two elementaries after a state review found much of its elementary classroom space going unused. Put next to the middle school change two years earlier, it reads as a district fitting its buildings to the students it actually has.

Seventy square miles and a gate

By the state's own district profile, Mid-Del covers about seventy square miles. That takes in Midwest City, almost all of Del City and parts of Oklahoma City, including Tinker Air Force Base. A footprint like that means a Mid-Del search cannot be run by city name. Some houses with an Oklahoma City address sit inside it, and some houses in Midwest City sit in a different district altogether.

Tinker Elementary sits just outside the base gate. There is no school on the installation itself. In 2026 Tinker Elementary was recognized with the Purple Star, Oklahoma's designation for schools that support military families.

The district publishes its school information, and it is worth reading before you shop. Which school serves a specific house is still a phone call to the district office, and I make it early, before anybody gets attached to a kitchen or a backyard.

What the 2023 vote is paying for

In October 2023 more than three quarters of voters approved all three of the district's bond propositions. The district keeps a timeline of what that approval is building, and most of it is the unglamorous kind of work a family notices only when it is missing.

The timeline starts with security fencing and automatic locking classroom doors at its campuses. It includes classroom additions with storm shelters at Tinker and Barnes elementaries, which is the way shelters have been arriving at Mid-Del, school by school through its bonds. If a shelter matters to your family, ask about the specific building.

Construction on indoor multipurpose facilities at the high schools began in 2026. Further down the timeline, the district plans a new Townsend Elementary.