Verden High School

Verden High School serves students in Verden, Oklahoma, as a very small high school. It offers grades 9 through 12 and has 138 students enrolled. High schools in Oklahoma have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 69% lower.

VERDEN is the local district for Verden High School. It runs 2 schools with 366 students.

More than half of the students at Verden High School are White (68%). The rest of enrollment is 13% Hispanic, 10% Native American, and 9% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Grady County's population at about 80%. The diversity index for Verden High School is 50%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

Teacher count: 7.7 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 18.0:1. Compared with the 15.4:1 average for high schools in Oklahoma, this school's ratio is higher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 54%. The figure for public schools in Grady County is close, at 55%.

Grady County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $75,419 a year, roughly 23% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Grady County number 33, with about 9,669 students.

Less than a tenth of a mile separates Verden High School from the closest public school, Verden Elementary School. A ten-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

Federal records code the school's setting as Rural: Distant.

The school's enrollment figures are 84 for 2020-21 and 138 for 2024-25. Differences this large can reflect a change in grade levels, a boundary change, or a merger. By 2024-25, the school had 18.0 students per teacher, compared with 16.8 in 2020-21.

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