While seniors walked across the stage to receive their diploma,
U.S. News crunched the numbers to find the best high schools in the nation.
U.S. News reviewed nearly 24,000 public high schools across the country and ranked the best in each state using a variety of factors, such as college readiness, college curriculum breadth, math and reading proficiency, math and reading performance, underserved student performance, and graduation rate.
According to the report, Oklahoma has 468 high schools across 432 districts, with 10,911 full-time teachers and 187,976 students enrolled.
These are the top 25 high schools in Oklahoma:
Classen High School of Advanced Studies, Oklahoma City
Bethany High School senior Stefi Thanscheidt won hers with the perfect spoken word. I did enjoy poetry, but I don t think I had ever really connected with one, Stefi said.
That was until she competed in the 2021 Poetry Out Loud program, a national competition that puts students poetry prowess to the test.
Stefi memorized and recited three poems for the virtual competition, being judged on things like articulation, accuracy, and dramatic flair. To be a state champion is just really a nice honor to receive. She s worked hard, she s really put a lot of time and effort into the program, said Paul Baker, Bethany High School drama and debate teacher.
1923–2011
Clara Luper received her bachelor s degree from Langston University in 1944 and her master s degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1951, becoming the first Black graduate student in the OU History program. Luper went on to become the adviser for the Oklahoma City NAACP Youth Council. The Youth Council staged a sit-in at Oklahoma City s Katz drugstore in 1958, launching a national sit-in movement to demonstrate against segregation. She continued her non-violent activism, participating in marches, demonstrations and was jailed numerous times for her Civil Rights work.
Former Gov. Mary Fallin
1957–
Mary Fallin became Oklahoma s first female governor when she took office on January 10, 2011. Fallin also made history as the first woman to be elected lieutenant governor of Oklahoma, a position she served in from 1995-2007. She was then elected to the 110th Congress, which was only the second time a woman had represented Oklahoma in Congress. When Fallin took office,
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