Editing Ponca City, Oklahoma (section)

==Education==

===Public education===
[[File:Ponca City High School.jpg|thumb|[[Ponca City High School]]]]
[[Ponca City Public Schools]] serves the general population's education requirements in almost all of the city limits.<ref name=KayCountySDMap2020>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st40_ok/schooldistrict_maps/c40071_kay/DC20SD_C40071.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Kay County, OK|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-01-27|pages=1-2 (PDF p. 2-3/3)}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st40_ok/schooldistrict_maps/c40071_kay/DC20SD_C40071_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref> Ponca City Public Schools serve over 5100 students.
;High schools
:* [[Ponca City High School]] (Po-Hi) - serves all 9th- through 12th-grade students in the school district.
:* Ombudsman Alternative Education Center  had provided select students the option to take a mostly technology-based route through high school. It was closed after the end of the academic year of 2012-2013.
:* WildCat Academy Program, starting in the 2013–2014 year, became the new alternative school for high-school students in the area. Sponsoring the Ponca City WildCat logo, it had changes from the Ombudsman and past alternative schools. 
;Middle schools
:* [[East Middle School (Oklahoma)|East Middle School]] serves Ponca City's estimated 380 eighth-grade students in the Ponca City Public School system.
:* [[West Middle School (Ponca City, OK)|West Middle School]]  serves most of the district's sixth- and seventh-grade students.
;Elementary schools
Ponca City has currently eight elementary schools to serve the district's pre-K through fifth-grade students:
:* Garfield Elementary
:* Liberty Elementary
:* Lincoln Elementary
:* Roosevelt Elementary
:* Trout Elementary
:* Union Elementary
:* McCord Elementary (has a sixth grade )
:* Washington Elementary became the Alternative School, but was closed at the end of the 2009-2010 school year. The school later reopened in 2015 as an elementary school.
:* Woodlands Elementary

Small sections of the Ponca City city limits are zoned to [[Kildare Public School]].<ref name=KayCountySDMap2020/>

===Private education===
Ponca City has three private schools that serve students from pre-K through eighth grade:
* Ponca City Christian Academy
* First Lutheran School
* St. Mary's Catholic School ([[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City]])

===Higher education===
* [[Pioneer Technology Center]] serves high school and adult students from throughout the surrounding area. PTC also has co-operative degree programs with [[Northern Oklahoma College]] and [[Cowley County Community College]]
* University Center (UC) at Ponca City offers interactive television  classes from several area universities, including Northern Oklahoma College and [[Northwestern Oklahoma State University]].  In 2018, the UC began an ambitious project seeking to create STEM opportunities for younger students to encourage a higher-education pursuit.  In December 2018, Phillips66 awarded the UC an $85,000 grant for the purchase of additional robotics kits and equipment to further develop the UC's STEM initiatives.

;Research facilities
* Ponca City is the headquarters for [[Oklahoma State University]]'s University Multispectral Laboratory.