Tenkiller Public School

Tenkiller Public School is a small elementary school in Welling, Oklahoma, one of the schools in TENKILLER. The school had 157 students in pre-K through 8 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Oklahoma is about 366, so this school runs 57% smaller than that.

Tenkiller Public School is part of TENKILLER.

Tenkiller Public School's enrollment is 80% Native American. The remaining shares are 16% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 33% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Teachers at the school number 14.6 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 10.8:1. On average, elementary schools in Oklahoma have 15.6:1, compared with 10.8:1 here. The school's lunch program data list 76% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That tracks the 73% average for public schools in Cherokee County.

Tenkiller Public School is located in Cherokee County, where the median household income is $53,218, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Tenkiller Public School is one of 21 public schools in the county.

Rocky Mountain Public School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.0 miles away. The ten-mile area around Tenkiller Public School holds 7 other public schools.

Its NCES locale code is Rural: Distant: the school is in rural territory some distance from an urban area.

Over 4 years, Tenkiller Public School's enrollment dropped 37%, to 157. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 16.7:1 to 10.8:1.

Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at Tenkiller Public School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.