Summary
Garber High School serves 125 students in grades 9–12 in Garber, Oklahoma, and draws comparisons with other high schools in the surrounding area. The school has some encouraging outcomes beyond test scores: its 2024–2025 graduation rate was 96%, second highest among nearby schools with reported rates, and its 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism rate was 4%, below the state’s 16% and the nearby average of 7%. Still, its most pressing academic concern is science: just 13% of students were proficient, the lowest result among the nine nearby schools.
Math is Garber’s strongest tested subject compared with nearby schools: 27% proficiency was above the nearby average of 22% and the state’s 25%, though below the Garber district result of 37%. English Language Arts I proficiency was 33%, above the state’s 26% but below the nearby average of 41% and the district’s 36%. Science proficiency of 13% was also below the state’s 30% and the district’s 34%. In U.S. History, 30% proficiency was below the state’s 41% and nearby average of 48%, and matched the district. The pattern is mixed: math stands out positively, while science and history are notable weaknesses.
Garber’s results and overall standing have declined from earlier highs. SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 90th statewide percentile in 2023–2024, then 74th and 52nd in the next two years; its 2025–2026 rating was three stars, and it ranked seventh of nine nearby schools. Test proficiency fell from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in ELA I (55% to 33%), math (35% to 27%) and history (42% to 30%); science stayed at 13%. The 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 11, below the nearby average of 12.1. In 2024–2025, 65% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, compared with a nearby average of 54%. SchoolDigger’s group rankings also show a sharp drop in how well the school served White Students: their percentile fell from 88 in 2023–2024 to 28 in 2025–2026, below the school’s overall 52nd percentile that year. In 2023–2024, the Female Students percentile was 58, compared with 90 overall.
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