Best Public Schools in Kiefer, OK

Kiefer, Oklahoma, has three public schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12, with 1,000 students across Kiefer Elementary School (PK–6), Rongey Middle School (grades 7–8), and Kiefer High School (grades 9–12). The clearest takeaway is that strengths differ by subject: High leads in all-grades English Language Arts (ELA), while Rongey leads in Science, and no school leads across all tested subjects.

Kiefer High School stands out in 2025–2026 ELA, with 34% proficient versus 14% at Rongey and 11% at Elementary; its result was 8 points above the state’s 26%. Rongey leads all-grades Science at 34%, ahead of Elementary’s 14% and High’s 13%, and 4 points above the state result. Kiefer Elementary is at the bottom in ELA and Math: 11% and 9%, respectively, compared with state results of 26% and 25%. High’s Math result was 15%, still 10 points below the state. At High, 28% were proficient in U.S. History, 13 points below the state.

Recent results are mostly moving down in ELA and Math, with Rongey’s Science improvement as a notable exception: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA fell 2 points at Elementary, 2 at Rongey, and 8 at High; Math fell 4, 7, and 0 points, respectively. Science rose 9 points at Rongey but fell 1 at Elementary and 6 at High. SchoolDigger’s latest rankings put High at the 39th percentile, Rongey at the 28th, and Elementary at the 8th. High’s graduation rate was 91%, compared with 78% statewide. For context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 47.8% at Elementary, 48.2% at High, and 50% at Rongey; student-teacher ratios were 21.6, 17.5, and 13.9, respectively. All-grades scores describe different grade spans, so they are not perfectly like-for-like comparisons.