The McAlester Public School district is a school district

School district

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 that competes and is classified as a 4A/5A school district in McAlester, Oklahoma

McAlester, Oklahoma

McAlester is a city in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 17,783 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Pittsburg County. It is currently the largest city in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, followed by Durant....

. Their mascot is the buffalo.
The superintendent is Tom Condict.

McAlester High School hosts BUFF TV, a television station on local channel 16 that is an operated by the MHS students and managed by Cory Richards and Steve Lemmons. In 2008, The Buff T.V. Award was given to a student every that shows there dedication to the channel the first recipient to this award was Senior Tyler Wilson.

Schools

There are 3 early childhood centers, 4 elementary schools, 1 middle school, and 2 secondary schools in the McAlester Public School District.

Secondary:

• McAlester High School serves grades 9-12, The principal is Randy Hughes, Vice principals are Stephanie Holt, Jerry McCormick, and Randall Peters
• Key Academy is an alternative school
  Alternative school
  Alternative school is the name used in some parts of the world to describe an institution which provides part of alternative education. It is an educational establishment with a curriculum and methods that are nontraditional...
  
   serving grades 9-12, the principal is Sonny Richards

Middle:

• Puterbaugh Middle School serves grades 7-8, the principal is Paula Meadows, the Vice Principal is Newman.

Elementary:

• Parker Intermediate Center serves grades 5-6, principal is Cindy Kemp, the vice principal is Kathy Hunt.
• Edmond Doyle Elementary School serves grades 1-4, principal is Deborah Forest.
• Emerson Elementary School serves grades 1-4, principal is Brenda LoPresto
• Will Rogers Elementary School serves grades 1-4, principal is Stacie Fryer

Early Childhood Centers:

• William Gay ECC serves both Pre-K & Kindergarten, principal is Vanessa Cummings
• Jefferson ECC serves Pre-K, principal is Karla Brock.
• Washington ECC serves K, principal is Shannon Scherman

Athletics

McAlester offers many sports including football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

, softball

Softball

Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...

, volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

, boys' basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, girls' basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

, wrestling

Scholastic wrestling

Scholastic wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the high school and middle school levels in the United States. This wrestling style is essentially Collegiate wrestling with some slight modifications. It is currently...

, cross country

Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

, track

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

, pom squad, cheerleading

Cheerleading

Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...

, marching band

Marching band

Marching band is a physical activity in which a group of instrumental musicians generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching with their musical performance. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments...

, weightlifting

Powerlifting

Powerlifting is a strength sport. It resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as 'odd lifts' which followed the same three attempt format but used a wide variety of events akin to Strongman...

, boys' golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

, girls' golf, and tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

. The Athletic Department has a total of 24 team state championships, 1 team national championship, and 20 individual state champions.

External links

• MPS district
• Athletic department