East Tulsa School Could Be Moving Soon

It's Project Schoolhouse round two for Tulsa Public Schools. The district is considering an overhaul on a much smaller level.

The superintendent says two schools are running out of room and he has a plan to fix it. Mayo Demonstration Academy is one of two schools TPS wants to relocate to another facility.

TPS held a parent and community forum Tuesday to share proposed changes to Mayo Demonstration School.

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TPS wants to relocate Mayo in East Tulsa to the former Wilson Middle School near the University of Tulsa.

Wilson, which was closed under a historic overhaul last year, is much larger than the current Mayo facility. Leaders say the extra space means would allow more students into the program.

Currently, for every open seat, Mayo gets two to three applicants and keeps about two dozen students on the waiting list.

Mayo is a demonstration academy and enrollment is based on a lottery system that pulls students from each quadrant of the city.

The district says relocating would mean the school is more centralized in Tulsa.

Wilson would have to be retrofitted for elementary kids and additional staff would have to be hired for the expansion.

TPS also wants to move Sequoya Elementary to the empty Cleveland Middle School, so there will be another forum on Thursday night at 6 p.m.

The school board will find out about all of these recommendations at their meeting next week,