Woodland Public Schools (Oklahoma)

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Woodland Public Schools, also known as Woodland School District, is a school district headquartered in Fairfax, Oklahoma. It has an elementary school, a middle school, and a high school.

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The district boundary is mostly in Osage County and includes Fairfax, a portion of Burbank, [1] and Gray Horse. [2] It is also partially in Pawnee County, where it includes Ralston. [3]

As of 2022 the high school has Osage language as a class for world languages. [4]

History

It was established in 1990 when the Fairfax and Ralston school districts merged. [5]

In 2002 the Burbank school district dissolved, with a portion going to Woodland. [6]

Beginning in the 2013–2014 school year, the district stopped sending certain data to the Oklahoma Department of Education and the United States Department of Education (ED). [7] Circa 2021 the ED asked about 17,000 school districts to respond to a request, and Woodland was the sole district not to comply. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Osage County, OK" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved 2024-01-25.
  2. ↑ "Osage County, Oklahoma". Oklahoma State University . Retrieved 2024-01-21. - Compare the location of the "Grayhorse Indian Reserve" to the school district map.
  3. ↑ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Pawnee County, OK" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved 2024-01-21. - Text list
  4. ↑ Duty, Shannon Shaw (2022-09-30). "Awakening the Osage Language". Osage News . Retrieved 2024-08-25.
  5. ↑ "FAIRFAX.". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture . Oklahoma Historical Society . Retrieved 2024-01-21.
  6. ↑ Marks, Dawn (2002-05-25). "98-year-old school closes". The Daily Oklahoman . Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. p. 4-A. - Clipping at Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ Gilbert, Amanda (2021-02-01). "Oklahoma school district risks loss of funds after failing to report mandatory information". Fox 23 News. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
  8. ↑ "Woodland Schools in Trouble With State, U.S. Dep. of Education". KWON. 2021-01-29. Retrieved 2024-01-21.


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