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Western Heights Public Schools
District details
School board members: 5
Students: 2,858 (2022-2023)
Schools: 8 (2022-2023)
Website: Link

Western Heights Public Schools is a school district in Oklahoma (Oklahoma County). During the 2023 school year, 2,858 students attended one of the district's eight schools.

This page provides information regarding school board members, election rules, finances, academics, policies, and more details about the district.

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Elections

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Western Heights Public Schools school board Seat 5

General election

Western Heights Public Schools school board Seat 4

General election

General election for Western Heights Public Schools school board Seat 4

Incumbent Teresa Lewis defeated LaCosta Herrion in the general election for Western Heights Public Schools school board Seat 4 on April 2, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Teresa Lewis (Nonpartisan)	67.2	45
	Submit photo	LaCosta Herrion (Nonpartisan)	32.8	22

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 67
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Western Heights Public Schools school board Seat 3

General election

General election for Western Heights Public Schools school board Seat 3

Brayden Hunt defeated Kelly Brown in the general election for Western Heights Public Schools school board Seat 3 on April 4, 2023.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Brayden Hunt (Nonpartisan)	56.3	156
	Submit photo	Kelly Brown (Nonpartisan)	43.7	121

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 277
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Western Heights Public Schools school board Seat 2

General election

Western Heights Public Schools school board Seat 1

General election

General election for Western Heights Public Schools school board Seat 1

Briana Flatley defeated incumbent Darrell Raper in the general election for Western Heights Public Schools school board Seat 1 on April 6, 2021.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Briana Flatley (Nonpartisan)	64.4	328
	Submit photo	Darrell Raper (Nonpartisan)	35.6	181

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 509
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Western Heights Public Schools school board Seat 5

General election

The general election was canceled. Robert Everman (Nonpartisan) won without appearing on the ballot.

Western Heights Public Schools school board Seat 4

General election

General election for Western Heights Public Schools school board Seat 4

Incumbent Robert Sharp defeated Brianna Dodd in the general election for Western Heights Public Schools school board Seat 4 on April 2, 2019.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Robert Sharp (Nonpartisan)	64.2	43
	Submit photo	Brianna Dodd (Nonpartisan)	35.8	24

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 67
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Western Heights Public Schools school board Seat 3

General election

General election for Western Heights Public Schools school board Seat 3

Incumbent Linda Farley defeated Bud Ward in the general election for Western Heights Public Schools school board Seat 3 on February 13, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Linda Farley (Nonpartisan)	70.1	230
	Submit photo	Bud Ward (Nonpartisan)	29.9	98

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 328
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Election rules

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Election dates and frequency

See also: Rules governing school board election dates and timing

School board nonpartisan primary elections in Oklahoma are held on the second Tuesday in February every year. School board primary elections are only held if more than two candidates run for a school board member seat. If two candidates run, the primary is canceled and both candidates advance to the general election.

School board general elections in Oklahoma are held on the first Tuesday in April every year.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Recent or upcoming election dates for all public school districts in the state

Below are the recent/upcoming dates for all public school districts in the state. There may be exceptions to these dates for specific districts because of local charters and district-specific exceptions and carve-outs.

• Filing deadline date: December 3, 2025
• Primary election date: February 10, 2026
• General election date: April 7, 2026

Election system

School board members in Oklahoma are elected through a system of a nonpartisan primary election and a nonpartisan general election. The primary election is only held if a large enough number of candidates run for office.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Party labels on the ballot

See also: Rules governing party labels in school board elections

School board elections in Oklahoma are nonpartisan, which means party labels do not appear on the ballot for school board candidates.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Winning an election

The top two school board candidates with the most votes in the nonpartisan primary advance to the general election as long as none of them receives more than 50% of the vote. If only two candidates file for the primary election, they automatically advance to the general election. If there are three or more candidates on the ballot for the primary election and one receives more than 50% of the vote, that candidate wins the election outright and is elected to office, and the general election is canceled.

The school board candidate with the most votes in the general election is elected to office. In Oklahoma, school board candidates can be elected outright in the nonpartisan primary election.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Term length and staggering

School districts with three board members have three-year board member terms. School districts with five members have five-year board member terms. School districts with seven members have four-year board member terms. Elementary school district board members have three-year terms. Independent school districts (which serve grades K-12) have school boards with five-year terms or four-year terms, depending on how many school board members they have. Districts with average student attendance of more than 30,000 can opt to elect a chair of the board in addition to other school board members. The chair must be elected at large to four-year terms. As of 2022, Oklahoma City Schools was the only district that had opted to have an additional elected chair of the school board.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Representation: at large vs. by sub-district

School districts either elect all regular school board members at large, or they elect all regular school board members from residence areas (sub-districts) with one board member elected by the voters of each sub-district. Elementary school districts must elect school board members at large. Any school district with an average daily student attendance of fewer than 1,800 students may choose to elect school board members at large instead of from sub-districts. Other school districts must elect school board members by sub-districts. Independent school districts that contain a city and for which less than 20% of the population of the school district resides outside of the city's limits may use the city's ward boundaries instead of drawing its own sub-district boundaries. Board members elected from sub-districts must reside within that sub-district when elected and for the duration of their terms. School districts with average student attendance of more than 30,000 can opt to elect a chair of the school board at large, which means that if other board members are elected by sub-district, that district would use a combination of elections at large and elections by sub-district elections.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

Filing deadlines and swearing-in dates

The deadline for candidates to file for regular school board elections is the Wednesday following the first Monday in December in the year before the February primary election. Candidates must submit their filing by 5:00 pm on the day of the filing deadline.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §26-13A-110

Newly elected school board members officially take office at the first school board meeting taking place after the results of the election have been certified.

See law: Oklahoma Statute §70-5-107A. Boards of education of school districts - Membership - Election procedure

 

About the district

School board

Western Heights Public Schools consists of five members serving five-year terms. To find information about school board meetings, click here.

List of school board members

Name	Seat	Year assumed office	Year term ends
Dawrenda Cooper	Seat 5	2025	2030
Teresa Lewis	Seat 4	2023	2029
Brayden Hunt	Seat 3	2023	2028
Darrin Dunkin	Seat 2	2022	2027
Briana Flatley	Seat 1	2021	2026

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Overlapping state house districts

Western Heights Public Schools

Office Name	Current Officeholder	Party	% School District Covered	% Other District Covered
Oklahoma House of Representatives District 90	Emily Gise	Republican Party	96%	42%
Oklahoma House of Representatives District 93	Mickey Dollens	Democratic Party	2%	9%
Oklahoma House of Representatives District 89	Arturo Alonso-Sandoval	Democratic Party	1%	3%

The table was limited to the lower chamber because it provides the most granularity. State house districts tend to be more numerous and therefore smaller than state senate or U.S. House districts. This provides an impression of the partisan affiliations in the area.

Budget

The following statistics were published by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Education.

• Revenue
• Expenditures

Revenue, 2020-2021

SOURCE	AMOUNT	AMOUNT PER STUDENT	PERCENT
Federal:	$5,319,000	$1,949	12%
Local:	$29,644,000	$10,863	69%
State:	$7,984,000	$2,926	19%
Total:	$42,947,000	$15,737

Expenditures, 2020-2021

TYPE	AMOUNT	AMOUNT PER STUDENT	PERCENT
Total Expenditures:	$46,373,000	$16,992
Total Current Expenditures:	$39,368,000	$14,425
Instructional Expenditures:	$16,376,000	$6,000	35%
Student and Staff Support:	$3,916,000	$1,434	8%
Administration:	$14,270,000	$5,229	31%
Operations, Food Service, Other:	$4,806,000	$1,761	10%
Total Capital Outlay:	$6,606,000	$2,420
Construction:	$6,050,000	$2,216
Total Non El-Sec Education & Other:	$0	$0
Interest on Debt:	$399,000	$146

Academic performance

Each year, state and local education agencies use tests and other standards to assess student proficiency. Although the data below was published by the U.S. Department of Education, proficiency measurements are established by the states. As a result, proficiency levels are not comparable between different states and year-over-year proficiency levels within a district may not be comparable because states may change their proficiency measurements. To protect student privacy, percentages are reported as ranges for groups of 300 students or fewer. If five or fewer students were included in a data set, the data will display as "PS."

• Mathematics
• Reading/language arts
• Graduation rates

The following table shows the percentage of district students who scored at or above the proficiency level each school year:

School year	All (%)	Asian/Pacific Islander (%)	Black (%)	Hispanic (%)	Native American (%)	Two or More Races (%)	White (%)
2020-2021	2	<=20	<=5	2	<=10	<=5	<=5
2018-2019	9	11-19	3	10	<=10	10-14	10
2017-2018	9	30-39	<=5	8	6-9	6-9	11
2016-2017	13	40-49	7	12	10-14	15-19	16
2015-2016	32	65-69	19	29	35-39	35-39	39
2014-2015	39	65-69	26	38	50-54	40-44	43
2013-2014	38	65-69	28	35	40-44	30-34	43
2012-2013	47	65-69	39	42	50-54	40-44	53
2011-2012	46	80-84	35	43	45-49	40-49	51
2010-2011	42	60-64	31	37	40-44		49

The following table shows the percentage of district students who scored at or above the proficiency level each school year:

School year	All (%)	Asian/Pacific Islander (%)	Black (%)	Hispanic (%)	Native American (%)	Two or More Races (%)	White (%)
2020-2021	6	21-39	<=5	6	<=10	6-9	6-9
2018-2019	13	20-29	6	13	11-19	15-19	17
2017-2018	14	30-39	<=5	13	10-14	10-14	19
2016-2017	15	40-49	6	13	15-19	15-19	24
2015-2016	42	70-74	32	41	45-49	35-39	47
2014-2015	43	55-59	34	40	45-49	40-44	51
2013-2014	44	65-69	33	39	45-49	40-44	53
2012-2013	50	65-69	42	43	55-59	40-44	59
2011-2012	48	65-69	35-39	42	40-44	50-59	55
2010-2011	47	55-59	39	38	50-54		56

The following table shows the graduation rate of district students each school year:

School year	All (%)	Asian/Pacific Islander (%)	Black (%)	Hispanic (%)	Native American (%)	Two or More Races (%)	White (%)
2019-2020	81	>=50	70-79	80-84	>=50	>=50	70-79
2018-2019	85	>=50	60-79	90-94	>=50	>=50	80-89
2017-2018	70-74	>=50	60-79	80-84	>=50	>=50	65-69
2016-2017	76	PS	70-79	80-84	>=50	<50	75-79
2015-2016	65-69	>=50	50-59	65-69	40-59	>=50	70-74
2014-2015	68	>=50	70-79	65-69	>=50	>=50	65-69
2013-2014	69	>=50	60-69	60-64	60-79	>=50	70-74
2012-2013	73	>=50	60-69	70-79	60-79	PS	75-79

Students

The following statistics were published by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Education.

• Enrollment
• Demographics

Year	Enrollment	Year-to-year change (%)
2022-2023	2,858	3.8
2021-2022	2,748	0.7
2020-2021	2,729	-25.3
2019-2020	3,419	1.6
2018-2019	3,363	-4.6
2017-2018	3,517	-1.8
2016-2017	3,580	-7.6
2015-2016	3,852	-1.1
2014-2015	3,896	1.9
2013-2014	3,821	0.5
2012-2013	3,800	-1.7
2011-2012	3,863	5.2
2010-2011	3,662	3.5
2009-2010	3,534	3.2
2008-2009	3,420	2.0
2007-2008	3,353	0.2
2006-2007	3,347	2.2
2005-2006	3,275	4.8
2004-2005	3,118	1.2
2003-2004	3,082	-1.6
2002-2003	3,132	-2.5
2001-2002	3,210	0.1
2000-2001	3,208	-1.1
1999-2000	3,242	0.0

Racial Demographics, 2022-2023

RACE	Western Heights Public Schools (%)	Oklahoma K-12 STUDENTS (%)
American Indian/Alaska Native	3.4	11.2
Asian or Asian/Pacific Islander	1.1	2.3
Black	22.1	7.9
Hispanic	45.8	19.8
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander	0.4	0.4
Two or More Races	11.3	12.9
White	16.0	45.5

Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

Staff

The following statistics were published by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Education.

• Teachers
• Administrators
• Other staff

As of the 2022-2023 school year, Western Heights Public Schools had 177.48 full-time classroom teachers. The student-teacher ratio was 16.1.

Teachers, 2022-2023 school year

TYPE	NUMBER OF TEACHERS
Prekindergarten:	7.00
Kindergarten:	7.00
Elementary:	80.73
Secondary:	82.75
Total:	177.48

Western Heights Public Schools employed 2.00 district administrators and 13.62 school administrators as of the 2022-2023 school year.

Administrators, 2022-2023 school year

TYPE	NUMBER OF ADMINISTRATORS
District Administrators:	2.00
District Administrative Support:	14.08
School Administrators:	13.62
School Administrative Support:	24.93

Other staff, 2022-2023 school year

TYPE	NUMBER OF OTHER STAFF
Instructional Aides:	53.63
Instruc. Coordinators & Supervisors:	1.08
Total Guidance Counselors:	5.90
Elementary Guidance Counselors:	3.90
Secondary Guidance Counselors:	2.00
Librarians/Media Specialists:	7.00
Library/Media Support:	3.00
Student Support Services:	44.61
Other Support Services:	83.13

Schools

The following statistics were published by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Education.

Western Heights Public Schools operates eight schools. They are listed below in alphabetical order.

List of schools

SCHOOL NAME	NUMBER OF STUDENTS	GRADES
Bridgestone Es	411	5-6
Council Grove Es	319	PK-4
Greenvale Es	238	PK-4
John Glenn Es	406	PK-4
Western Heights 9th Grade Ctr	248	9-9
Western Heights Hs	531	10-12
Western Heights Ms	442	7-8
Winds West Es	263	PK-4

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