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Waurika Middle School

Public Grades 6-8
218th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 378 Oklahoma Middle Schools
Better than 42% of Oklahoma middle schools
Summary

Waurika Middle School serves 91 students in grades 6–8 in Waurika, Oklahoma. SchoolDigger ranks it 218th of 378 Oklahoma schools for 2025–2026, at the 42nd percentile with 2 stars. Its results vary by subject, but the clearest academic concern is English language arts: 17% of students were proficient, 9 points below both the state and district rates.

Science is the school’s strongest result compared with nearby Comanche Middle School: 31% of Waurika students were proficient, compared with 19% at Comanche and 30% statewide, though the Waurika district rate was higher at 38%. Math was mixed: Waurika’s 25% matched the state, but trailed the district by 5 points and Comanche by 6. In seventh-grade math, Waurika matched Comanche at 34% and exceeded the state’s 26%; sixth-grade math was 23%, versus 39% at Comanche. ELA was weaker across the grades, especially in sixth grade, where 15% were proficient compared with 25% statewide.

Math improved from 23% proficiency in 2024–2025 to 25% in 2025–2026, matching the state rate in the latest year; ELA slipped from 18% to 17%, while the state remained at 26%. SchoolDigger’s overall percentile rose 5 points from the prior year, but remained below Comanche’s 60th percentile. Attendance is a bright spot: chronic absenteeism fell from 13.4% to 3.5%, compared with 15.9% statewide. In 2024–2025, Waurika’s student-teacher ratio was 11.9, compared with 16.5 at Comanche; 85% of Waurika students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year, versus 66% at Comanche. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for White Students rose from the 38th percentile in 2020–2021 to the 83rd in 2022–2023, a notable increase in its measure of how well the school serves this group; a same-year overall comparison for 2022–2023 is not available.

91
Students ?
11.9
Student/teacher ratio ?
$10,691
Per pupil spending ?
84.6%
Free/reduced lunch eligible (2024-25) ?
 600 East Florida Avenue
       Waurika, OK  73573-3573

(580) 228-2341

District: Waurika


Students who attend Waurika Middle School usually attend:

High:    Waurika High School

Feeder schools for Waurika Middle School:

Elementary:    Waurika Elementary School
Racial breakdown:

White:
73.6%
Hispanic:
14.3%
Two or more races:
6.6%
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At a glance
▲ Ranking trend: Improving — 14th percentile in 2009 → 42nd in 2026
Strengths
✓Ranking is trending up — up 28 percentile points since 2009
✓Small classes — about 12 students per teacher
Students meeting standards (2025-2026) ?
This school24%
District avg31%
Oklahoma avg27%
218th of 378
Oklahoma public middle schools ?
Bottom 42%▼ down 19 pts since 2021
From top 38% (2021) to bottom 42% (2026)
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★★★★★
SchoolDigger rating ?
212th of 450Waurika among Oklahoma districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
Show full rank history (all student groups)

All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankOklahoma percentileRating
202640.7218 of 37842.3%★★☆☆☆
202537.0234 of 36936.6%★★☆☆☆
202152.1156 of 40761.7%★★★☆☆
201540.8191 of 29735.7%★★☆☆☆
201121.0488 of 54210.0%★☆☆☆☆
201041.5375 of 53930.4%★★☆☆☆
200928.2446 of 52114.4%★☆☆☆☆

Low Socio Economic Status

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankOklahoma percentileRating
202463.983 of 29271.6%★★★★☆
202366.462 of 28978.5%★★★★☆
202263.068 of 26474.2%★★★★☆
202162.574 of 27873.4%★★★★☆

White

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankOklahoma percentileRating
202372.537 of 22283.3%★★★★☆
202139.2160 of 25737.7%★★☆☆☆
How student groups rank statewide ? (each group's percentile vs the same group at other schools — higher is better; the +/- beside each compares the group with this school's overall percentile)
White (2023)83rd percentile
Low Socio Economic Status (2024)72nd percentile
By subject vs Oklahoma (2025-2026) ?
Science31%~ state avg
Mathematics25%~ state avg
English Language Arts I17%-9 vs state

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Waurika Middle School ranks 218th of 378 Oklahoma middle schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 2 stars out of 5.

Students at Waurika Middle School are 74% White, 14% Hispanic, 7% Two or more races, 5% American Indian.

In the 2024-25 school year, 91 students attended Waurika Middle School.

Students who attend Waurika Middle School usually go on to attend Waurika High School

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Latest Oklahoma data All new data »
2025–26 school spending dataNewNov 4, 2026
2024–25 through 2025–26 attendance data & graduation ratesNewNov 4, 2026
2025–26 OSTP test scoresNewNov 4, 2026
2019–20 through 2024–25 immunization ratesOct 19, 2026


SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Oklahoma State Department of Education.

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