Summary:
High schools in ZIP code 74426 consist of one school, Checotah High School, which serves grades 9–12 and has 389 students. Its most important concern is a broad decline in test results: proficiency fell in all four reported subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and its four-subject average dropped from 26% to 18%.
There is no meaningful top-to-bottom school comparison because Checotah High School is the only school listed. Within its results, English Language Arts I stands out as the relative strength: 28% proficient in 2025–2026, 2 points above the state’s 26%. Science is the weakest compared with the state, at 11% versus 30%, a 19-point gap; mathematics is the lowest score overall, at 9% versus 25% statewide. The school’s U.S. History result was 24%, 17 points below the state and equal to the district result. English looks different for 11th graders: the school’s 28% was 8 points below the state’s 36% for that grade.
The declines were largest in U.S. History, down 12 points to 24%, while mathematics and science each fell 8 points, to 9% and 11%; English Language Arts I decreased 3 points, to 28%. SchoolDigger’s ranking also moved down, from 178th of 432 schools (59th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 366th of 462 (21st percentile) in 2025–2026. Other outcomes are more favorable: the 2024–2025 graduation rate was 90%, matching the Checotah district and 12 points above the state; chronic absenteeism was 5% in 2025–2026, compared with 16% statewide. As context, 84% of students were free/reduced-lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student–teacher ratio was 16.6 that year; these figures do not establish what caused the academic results.
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