COMMERCE HS

COMMERCE HS operates as a low-enrollment high school in COMMERCE, Oklahoma, run under COMMERCE. Current enrollment sits at 217 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 51% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

COMMERCE comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 837 students; COMMERCE HS is among them.

Demographically, COMMERCE HS logs that the largest single group is White at 35%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 29% Hispanic, 27% Native American, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Ottawa County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, COMMERCE HS has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Roughly 77% of students at COMMERCE HS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Ottawa County indicate median household earnings sit near $49,947, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, Ottawa County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,356 students), of which COMMERCE HS is one.

The closest other public school is COMMERCE MS, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. COMMERCE HS's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 218 (now 217). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 24% to 29% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

On the community side, members of the COMMERCE HS community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.