Best Public Schools in Wister, OK

Summary:

The city of Wister, Oklahoma is home to two schools: Wister Elementary School and Wister High School. While both schools face challenges, they also show signs of progress and areas for potential improvement.

Wister Elementary School serves a higher percentage of students on free or reduced-price lunch (69.75%) compared to Wister High School (58.62%), and it has a higher student-teacher ratio of 13.8 versus 13.2 at the high school. The elementary school also spends more per student ($9,827) than the high school ($5,604), but its statewide ranking has declined from 319 out of 846 in 2010-2011 to 510 out of 646 in 2020-2021.

In contrast, Wister High School has shown improvement in its statewide ranking, moving from 318 out of 439 in 2022-2023 to 177 out of 431 in 2023-2024. However, the high school's test scores remain relatively low, with only 41% of 11th-grade students proficient or better in CCRA/English Language Arts and 10.3% in CCRA/Mathematics in 2023-2024. The high school's four-year graduation rate in 2021-2022 was 80.1%.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking ()				Ranking ()				CCRA English Language Arts (2024)	CCRA Mathematics (2024)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2023)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score ()	Statewide Rank ()	State Percentile ()	SchoolDigger Rating ()	Average Standard Score ()	Statewide Rank ()	State Percentile ()	Rank Change from Previous Year	CCRA English Language Arts 11th Grade	CCRA Mathematics 11th Grade	Total
Wister Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-8	201 Logan Street	Wister	74966	Le Flore County	Wister	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(918) 655-7481	314	23	13.8	69.7%	171 (54.5%)	3 (1.0%)	5 (1.6%)	0 (0.0%)	124 (39.5%)	0 (0.0%)	11 (3.5%)								(n/a)			$9,530
Wister High School	Public	9-12	201 Logan Street	Wister	74966	Le Flore County	Wister	No	(n/a)	No	No	(918) 655-7276	145	11	13.2	58.6%	86 (59.3%)	0 (0.0%)	4 (2.8%)	0 (0.0%)	49 (33.8%)	0 (0.0%)	6 (4.1%)								(n/a)	41.0	10.3	$10,175

Cities Near Wister

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Fanshawe	5.67 mi	1
Leflore	9.84 mi	2
Howe	10.15 mi	2	15^th
Hodgen	12.51 mi	1
Heavener	12.92 mi	2

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Oklahoma State Department of Education.

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