Summary:
Schools in ZIP code 74056 comprise five schools serving 731 students: three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. In 2025–2026, the four schools with proficiency results averaged 21% in ELA, 15% in math and 21% in science, compared with state results of 26%, 25% and 30%. Math had the widest average gap, at 10 percentage points. The most important finding is that area averages trail the state in all three subjects, especially math.
Results vary considerably, and the subject leaders are different. Pawhuska High School led in ELA at 31%, 5 points above the state, while Pawhuska Middle School was lowest at 9%, 17 points below. Pawhuska Elementary School had the strongest math result at 23%, 2 points below the state; Pawhuska High was lowest at 10%, a 13-point difference from the elementary school. Bowring Public School led science at 29%, just 1 point below the state, while Pawhuska Middle had 14%, 16 points below. In the direct sixth-grade comparison, Bowring had 22% proficient in both ELA and math, versus 7% and 11% at Pawhuska Middle.
Average results moved closer to the state from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: the ELA gap narrowed from 6 points to 5, math from 12 to 10, and science from 21 to 12. The science average for the three schools with results in both years rose from 9% to 18%; Pawhuska High gained 14 points, Pawhuska Elementary 11 and Pawhuska Middle 4. SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 percentile ranks were 42 for Pawhuska High, 27 for Pawhuska Elementary and 9 for Pawhuska Middle; these are rankings, not proficiency rates. The reported free/reduced lunch eligible measure in 2024–2025 ranged from 69% at Pawhuska High to 89% at Bowring. Bowring also had the lowest student–teacher ratio, 9.4, and led science, while Pawhuska Middle had the highest ratio, 18.5, and the lowest ELA and science results. These comparisons are a snapshot: schools serve different grades, and Bowring’s latest supplied SchoolDigger rank is from 2014–2015.
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