About

Santa Fe South Pathways Middle College is a 4-year comprehensive high school located on the campus of Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC). The school was founded in 2001 under the Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS) umbrella as Pathways Middle College High School. The middle/early college design was introduced to Oklahoma with this small, 5-teacher, high school on the OCCC campus, where it operated for 13 years.

Pathways has now grown to over 330 students, and a faculty of 21 teachers/staff that have fully implemented a relationship, relevance, and rigor mindset into the culture of the school. A Harry Potter style HOUSE system builds RELATIONSHIPS by helping our teachers and peers provide students with academic and social guidance. Our faculty creates RELEVANCE with a project and cognitive skills-based curriculum using current events, personal backgrounds, and historical realities while emphasizing competency in twenty-first-century skills. The use of a demanding college-preparatory curriculum, SUMMIT learning, that sets high expectations for everyone, Pathways raised the level of RIGOR.

The RESULTS have spoken for themselves. In the last 10 years, over 200 graduates have completed their Associates Degrees before they graduated with their high school diplomas. The graduation rate for the last six years is 98%. Student have been accepted and are attending elite schools across the country from Columbia, to Florida State, to University of Minnesota, and Stanford University; not to mention the number who stay here in Oklahoma and attend the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University. Pathways has produced Santa Fe South Schools 1st National Merit Scholar; a Gate Millennium Scholar; and almost $40 million in scholarships in a short 10 years.

In 2023, Pathways was recognized by U.S. News as the #1 charter school and #1 non-magnet school in the State of Oklahoma.  And according to the State of Oklahoma school report card, Pathways is the #1 school in Oklahoma with a overall score of a 96%.