White Oak Public Schools is a school district headquartered in White Oak, Oklahoma , United States. It operates a single PreK-8 school , White Oak Public School. While the district has jurisdiction over grades K-12, it sends high school students to Vinita Public Schools and only educates Pre-Kindergarten through grade 8 in-house. The district includes the census-designated place of White Oak, and small portions of Vinita along some roads. The community of Estella, as of 1938, sent high school students to the White Oak High School.
11-527: The district was previously operating all grades K-12. A facility built in 1926 was destroyed by a 1942 fire. The current school facility opened in 1943. In the 1991-1992 school year, White Oak was one of three school districts attempting to acquire the Big Cabin School District , which was closing. By March 1992 the White Oak district had spent $ 16,219 to pay two legal companies in an effort to obtain
22-473: Is the concession stand. In 2010 the school district had 51 students in the physical school building, but its official enrollment was 970, due to it counting students in Oklahoma Virtual Academy, a virtual school operated by the company K12, which the district partnered with. To take Oklahoma state accountability tests, the virtual students traveled to the White Oak area, stayed in a hotel, and took
33-546: The 1991–1992 school year, the number of students enrolled fell below 100. In fall 1991 more than 50% of the people living in the Big Cabin district chose to send their children to other schools. The Oklahoma Department of Education told the Big Cabin administration that they recommended a dissolution. The district voted to end its own operations in fall 1991, effective at the end of the 1991–1992 school year. By December 1991 three school districts expressed interest in taking over
44-503: The Big Cabin district. Voters in the Big Cabin district rejected the merger with White Oak, and instead chose the Vinita school district. Several years prior to 2009, there were 197 students in the White Oak district. By 2009 the amount of money given by the Oklahoma state government had declined, and that year, the student count was 125. In 2010, an election was to be held on whether the district
55-419: The Big Cabin district: Adair Public Schools , White Oak Public Schools , and Vinita Public Schools . Virgil Black, a district judge of Oklahoma , ruled that there would be subsequent elections for the Big Cabin district residents to decide which district to be annexed into, instead of having voters choose from the three districts on a single occasion. Black stated that he would not have ruled that way if he had
66-486: The White Oak school district. By March 1992 the White Oak district had spent $ 16,219 to pay two legal companies in an effort to obtain the Big Cabin district. In May 1992 residents of the Big Cabin school district approved a referendum to join the Vinita school district. According to results (which were not yet ruled official) available as of May 7, 1992, 224 voters were in favor of the Vinita merger while 187 voters were against. This Oklahoma school-related article
77-551: The choice, but he felt that he was required to under Oklahoma law. In December 1991, Black decided that the first election scheduled would be for the White Oak merger proposal. In January 1992 residents turned down a proposal to merge the district into the Adair school district. According to results (which were not yet ruled official) available as of January 3, 1992, 230 voters were against the Adair merger while 223 were in favor. Voters additionally rejected another proposal to merge with
88-571: The editorial board of The Oklahoman argued that the state education board should continue to examine the school district's practice of contracting education to a virtual private school. Big Cabin School District Big Cabin School District was a school district headquartered in Big Cabin, Oklahoma . The district territory includes parts of the following counties: Craig , Mayes , and Rogers . In 1958 there
99-403: The tests on the school site. The Oklahoma State Board of Education , circa 2010, considered the use of the virtual school and voted three times on whether to accredit White Oak; the first vote was against accreditation, the second only accredited the in-person students, and the third accredited the entire district. Four board members voted for the third outcome while three voted against. That year,
110-433: Was a bond proposal to spend $ 65,000 for a replacement school facility. The proposed facility would be for all grade levels. In the period circa 1986–1991, the district had seven superintendents. The Oklahoma Department of Education , for the 1991–1992 school year, stated that the district was on an accreditation warning. A group of parents were advocating for allowing their children to be sent to other school districts. In
121-402: Was to continue having high school classes. The electorate decided to end high school education effective spring 2010. The elementary school and middle school continue to operate while the old high school building is abandoned. The high school campus contains two basketball gyms, the main gym named Carl Horner gymnasium, and an old gym connected to the school. The only remnants of the football field
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