WILBURTON MS

WILBURTON MS, a modestly sized junior high in Wilburton, Oklahoma, run under WILBURTON, hosts 186 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 52% smaller than the typical public school in Oklahoma, which averages around 388 students.

WILBURTON comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 866 students; WILBURTON MS is among them.

Demographically, WILBURTON MS lists that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment; the rest consists of 31% Native American, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.7:1 average. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WILBURTON MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.4%, the actual is 29.0%, a residual of -0.4 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Latimer County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $41,405 per year, about 11% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Latimer County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,403 students), WILBURTON MS is one campus in the mix.

WILBURTON HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around WILBURTON MS. On composite proficiency, WILBURTON MS comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 24.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. WILBURTON MS's enrollment has edged up 17% since 2018, when it stood at 159 (now 186). White enrollment moved from 52% to 58% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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