Checotah

Checotah has four schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12, with 1,428 students enrolled across elementary, middle, and high school. The clearest area-wide takeaway is that results vary substantially by school: among the three schools with reported test scores, mathematics proficiency ranges from 9% to 55%, and science from 11% to 57%.

Checotah Intermediate Elementary stands out in mathematics: 55% proficient in 2025–2026, 30 points above the state and 38 points above the average of the other two tested schools. Checotah Middle leads in science at 57%, 27 points above the state, and in ELA at 34%. At the other end, Checotah High was below the state in mathematics (9% versus 25%), science (11% versus 30%), and U.S. History (24% versus 41%), though its ELA result was 2 points above the state. Grade-level results also highlight Intermediate’s fourth-grade math (72% versus 33% statewide) and Middle’s seventh-grade ELA (49% versus 23%).

Recent trends favor Middle: its average across ELA, math, and science rose 3 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while Intermediate fell 11 points and High fell 6. Across the three schools, the average advantage over the state narrowed from 10 points to 5. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking for High also fell from 59 to 21 over three years; Middle moved from 71 to 80, and Intermediate from 83 to 77. As context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were similar at the three tested schools—84% at High, 86% at Middle, and 87% at Intermediate—while student-teacher ratios were 16.6, 14.8, and 14.1, respectively. High also had a 90% graduation rate and 5% chronic absenteeism; Middle’s absenteeism was 3%. Marshall enrolled 433 students and had a 17.3 student-teacher ratio, but no test scores were provided for it.