ELGIN HS

ELGIN HS operates as a roomy 9-12 campus in Elgin, Oklahoma, run under ELGIN. Current enrollment sits at 789 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 78% larger than the typical public school in Oklahoma, which averages around 443 students.

Within ELGIN, which oversees 3 schools and 2,534 students, ELGIN HS is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ELGIN HS logs that 58% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 20% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 7% Native American, 3% Black. Compared to Comanche County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, ELGIN HS records 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.0:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Comanche County's rate of about 67%.

Around the school, Comanche County reports that median household earnings sit near $60,761, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Comanche County runs 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,786 students), of which ELGIN HS is one.

ELGIN ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around ELGIN HS.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ELGIN HS has expanded 16%, going from 682 students in 2018 to 789 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 11% to 20%. Class-load math has grew: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 in 2025.

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