Empire High School

Empire High School is a very small high school that serves part of Duncan, Oklahoma. The school has 150 students in 2024-25 across grades 9 through 12. High schools in Oklahoma have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 66% lower.

EMPIRE has a total of 3 schools and 506 students, Empire High School among them.

The student body at Empire High School is 64% White. Other reported shares: 19% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, and 6% Native American. Stephens County's residents are about 80% White, 16 points above the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 54, compared with 70 nationally.

The student-to-teacher ratio at Empire High School is 20.8:1, based on 7.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for high schools in Oklahoma, 15.4:1, is lower. Empire High School counts 40% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Stephens County is 60%.

In the wider Stephens County area, the median household earns about $61,620 a year, about 21% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Empire High School shares Stephens County with 25 other public schools.

Empire High School's closest public school neighbor is Empire Middle School, less than a tenth of a mile away. The five-mile area around Empire High School holds 2 other public schools.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Rural: Distant: in rural territory some distance from an urban area.

Enrollment at Empire High School was 148 in 2020-21 and 150 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 14.8:1 in 2020-21, and 20.8:1 in 2024-25.

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