Best Public Schools in Red Oak, OK

Red Oak, Oklahoma, has two listed schools serving PK–12: Red Oak Elementary School (PK–8, 173 students) and Red Oak High School (grades 9–12, 91 students), for 264 students total. Neither school leads across every subject. The most important area-wide finding is that math results at both schools are 13–14 percentage points below the state, while science ranges from 10 points above the state at elementary to 9 points below at high school.

The elementary school stands out in science: 40% of students were proficient in 2025–26, compared with 21% at the high school and 30% statewide. The high school stands out in U.S. History, with 47% proficient—6 points above the state—and its ELA result of 26% matched the state. The weakest relative results are math at both schools and elementary ELA, where 11% were proficient, 15 points below the state. The high school also posted a 98% graduation rate in 2024–25, versus 78% statewide, and chronic absenteeism of 5% in 2025–26, compared with 16% statewide.

Results changed differently by subject: elementary science rose from 31% to 40% between 2024–25 and 2025–26, while its math fell from 24% to 12%; high-school scores increased in all four reported subjects, including U.S. History from 40% to 47%. SchoolDigger places the high school at the 54th percentile in 2025–26, up from the 30th percentile the prior year, after the 51st percentile in 2023–24; it gives the Red Oak district 3 stars and ranks it 204 of 450 (55th percentile). The high school’s student-teacher ratio is 9.8, compared with 17.3 at the elementary school; in 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible rates were 87% and 82%, respectively. These schools serve different grade spans, so their schoolwide test results are not same-grade comparisons.