Mustang Public Schools

Kept by construction

Mustang Public Schools has one high school, and its board has said plainly why. The district stayed devoted to "maintaining the cohesiveness of the community," in its own words, by keeping every student at one high school rather than splitting the community and its resources. That is a decision a board has to keep making, and Mustang keeps it with concrete and steel.

After the 2009 bond, which voters approved with more than eighty percent, the district rebuilt Mustang High School, and the campus opened in 2012. In February 2023 voters approved the district's Momentum23 bond with more than seventy percent, and part of that money went into expanding the same high school again. The 2012 campus and the 2023 expansion are two answers to the same question, asked more than a decade apart, and both times the answer was to make the one building bigger. The Mustang city page on this site covers what that means for a family. This page is about how the district holds to it.

Four buildings on the way to one

The district's own directory lists seventeen sites, and they stack up like a ladder.

There are nine elementaries. The newest is Sunset Hill, which opened in August 2025 and was built with Momentum23 money. The Mustang Education Center sits alongside them.

Above the elementaries are three intermediate schools for grades five and six, Canyon Ridge, Meadow Brook and Mustang Horizon.

Then come three middle schools. Mustang Middle School and Mustang North were joined by Central Middle School, which opened in August 2019.

At the top is Mustang High School, and there is only one. A student here moves through four buildings on the way to graduation, and the last of them is the same building for everyone. Every level below the top has multiplied as the district grew. The top has not divided.

A room in a bank

The district began on September 1, 1902, when a board of three men held its first meeting and set a twenty-mill levy to pay for a school. In the middle of October that year, the first term opened in a room of the Mustang State Bank building. Forty-five students showed up, and one teacher, Etta Fisher, taught all of them for forty dollars a month.

By the summer of 1903 the district had built a two-room schoolhouse. Grades one through four sat in one room and grades five through eight sat in the other. According to the district's own history, that schoolhouse stood at what is now the southeast corner of the Mustang High School campus.

In 1920 Mustang formed a union district with four surrounding country districts and earned its first state accreditation. The first Mustang High School class graduated in 1924. Today the district describes itself as spanning "Mustang's seventy-two square mile boundary." That is a long way from one room in a bank, and the high school still stands where the second building did.

Where the district reaches

The district covers all of Mustang and parts of Oklahoma City, and it reaches into three counties, Canadian, Cleveland and Oklahoma. A large share of its territory carries southwest Oklahoma City addresses.

The district office sits at 12400 SW 15th Street, and it carries a Yukon mailing address. Some of the areas around it carry Yukon mailing addresses too, which is a good reminder that the mailing address on a listing does not settle the school district. The Yukon page on this site covers that in full.

The district publishes its own boundary maps, and I send people to them. Then I call the district office about the specific house, early, before anybody is attached to it. That office is the only place that can say which school serves an address.

Filling rooms, then a breath

For most of a century, Mustang filled rooms. The district's own history says it added more than eighteen hundred students between 1994 and 2007. In 2021 it counted about fifteen hundred more students than it had the year before. Those are the district's own figures, and I am not going to stack a projection on top of them. Voters kept pace, approving bond after bond for two decades.

Now the district says its enrollment growth has slowed, and it describes that as a chance to shift toward modernizing the schools it already has. It plans that work in phases it calls Momentum. A district that started with forty-five students in a borrowed room spent a hundred years adding space, climbed hard for a while, and has now turned its attention to taking care of what it built.