Wellston High School

Wellston High School is a high school in Wellston, Oklahoma, according to federal school records. It educates 124 students in grades 9 through 12. The school's enrollment is 72% smaller than the 443 average for high schools in Oklahoma.

Enrollment across the 3 schools in WELLSTON totals 445 students.

Wellston High School is 69% White by enrollment. Smaller groups are 19% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Native American, and 2% Black. County-wide, 82% of Lincoln County residents are White. Wellston High School's diversity index is 48%, against a US figure of 70%.

The school employs the equivalent of 7.6 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 16.4:1. That is higher than the 15.4:1 average for high schools in Oklahoma. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 58%.

Lincoln County has about 34,219 residents, and the median household income is $62,216, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 16% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 14%. In all, Lincoln County has 25 public schools and roughly 5,177 students.

The closest public school, Wellston Middle School, is less than a tenth of a mile from Wellston High School. There are 2 other public schools within five miles.

NCES describes the area around Wellston High School as Rural: Distant, meaning in rural territory some distance from an urban area.

The school enrolled 124 students in 2024-25, 7 fewer than the 131 it had in 2020-21. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 11.9:1 to 16.4:1.

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