Summary:
ZIP code 47660 in Oakland City, Indiana has exactly one high school: Waldo J Wood Memorial High, which serves grades 9–12 with 226 students and belongs to East Gibson School Corporation. Because there is only one school here, everything below describes that single school rather than a comparison among local options. The district itself ranks 212th of 374 in Indiana, which puts it in the 43rd percentile with 2 stars.
The school's strongest results are in completion and attendance. Its graduation rate was 94.3% in 2024–2025, above Indiana's 89.7% and equal to the district's rate. Chronic absenteeism was 15.1%, better than the state's 16.7%, though slightly above the district's 14.2%. Class sizes are small, with a student-teacher ratio of 10.2 students per teacher, and per-student spending was $14,035 in 2023–2024. About 53.1% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025, so the school serves a mostly economically disadvantaged population in a small, comparatively well-resourced setting.
Test scores and state ranking are the weaker spots, and both are trending downward. The school's state rank fell from 60th percentile with 3 stars in 2023–2024 to 35th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026, when it placed 268th of 415 schools. In the latest year, SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing was 40.43% against the state's 51.9%, and SAT Mathematics was 23.4% against the state's 25.6% — a reversal from the prior year, when math proficiency was above the state. Biology was 22.22%, below the district's 30.16%. Every reported proficiency rate dropped from the previous year, so the main question for parents is whether this is a one-year dip or the start of a longer decline.
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