Summary:
Verdigris has four schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Verdigris Elementary (PK–3), Verdigris Upper Elementary (4–6), Verdigris Junior High (7–8), and Verdigris High (9–12). Together they enroll 1,352 students. In 2025–2026, every school’s All Grades ELA result exceeded the state’s 26%; three schools scored above the state’s 25% in math, while High matched it. The most important finding is that strong results across the area hide substantial school-to-school differences, especially in math and science.
Verdigris Elementary stands out in ELA and math, with 54% and 64% proficient; its third graders also outscored the state, 54% to 26% in ELA and 64% to 33% in math. Verdigris Upper Elementary leads reported All Grades science at 63%, compared with 49% at Junior High and 23% at High; its fifth-grade science result was 63%, versus 35% statewide. At the other end, Junior High has the lowest All Grades ELA result at 33%, though that is 7 points above state, while High has the lowest math and science results: 25% in math, equal to state, and 23% in science, 7 points below. High’s eleventh-grade results, however, exceed state results in all four reported subjects. All Grades comparisons are not fully like-for-like because the schools serve different grades.
Recent changes are mixed: the equally weighted school average rose 2 points in ELA and 3 in math from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while the three-school science average fell 4 points. High’s ELA fell 11 points and science fell 9, even as its graduation rate was 89% in 2024–2025, compared with 78% statewide. High also had 21% chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026, versus 6% at Elementary. SchoolDigger ranks the district 29th of 450, at the 94th percentile with five stars; its school rankings place High at the 85th percentile and Junior High at the 86th, both with four stars. Student-teacher ratios range from 13.1 to 14.9. Free/reduced lunch eligible shares in 2024–2025 ranged from 30% at High to 41% at Elementary—context about the schools, not an explanation for their results.
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