Best Public Schools in Checotah, OK

Checotah’s four listed schools serve students from prekindergarten through grade 12: Marshall Elementary School, Checotah Intermediate Elementary School, Checotah Middle School, and Checotah High School. Test results are available for the three schools serving grades 3–12, but not for Marshall. Across those reporting schools, the 2025–2026 results vary sharply by school and subject: mathematics and science each have a 46-point school-to-school spread, while English language arts has a 6-point spread. The most important takeaway is that a citywide or district-level summary can hide substantial differences between individual schools.

Checotah Intermediate Elementary School stands out in mathematics: 55% of students were proficient, 30 points above the state’s 25%; its fourth-grade mathematics result was 72%, compared with 33% statewide. Checotah Middle School leads in science, with 57% proficient versus 30% statewide, and has the strongest English language arts result at 34%, 8 points above the state. At the lower end, Checotah High School had the lowest mathematics and science results: 9% and 11%, respectively, versus state results of 25% and 30%. Its grade-11 results were below state levels in all four reported subjects, including U.S. History, 24% versus 41%.

Average results across the three reporting schools declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 by 3 points in English language arts, 5 in mathematics, and 7 in science, even though the latest averages remained above state results. SchoolDigger’s latest statewide rankings put Checotah Middle School at the 80th percentile and Checotah Intermediate Elementary School at the 77th, while Checotah High School fell to the 21st percentile from the 59th in 2023–2024. Other measures offer useful context: student-teacher ratios range from 14.1 at Intermediate to 17.3 at Marshall, and all four schools report free/reduced lunch eligible measures for 2024–2025, ranging from 84% at High to 90% at Marshall. High’s 90% graduation rate and 5% chronic absenteeism are stronger than its test results suggest; district absenteeism is 8% and state absenteeism is 16%. These figures describe different outcomes and do not by themselves explain school performance.