Vian’s school system showed strong performance at all three levels on the recent State School Report Card for the 2024-25 school year. Vian Middle School’s overall scores ranked first among all Sequoyah County middle schools. Its elementary school came in second among county elementaries, and Vian High ranked third among the county’s seven high schools.

Each of Vian’s three schools earned an overall score that ranked in the top 30% statewide. The Vian School District’s strong system-wide showing was the county’s best across-the-board result.

State report cards were released in late 2025. School systems receive separate report cards for their high school, middle school and elementary.

Letter grades and rankings are given for academic achievement, academic growth, attendance, graduation rates and more, along with an overall grade and rank.

Vian Elementary School (VES) finished second in the county in overall rankings, behind the strong showing by Roland Elementary.

VES bested statewide averages in all categories and scored Bs in academic growth and attendance. Its overall score ranked 157th among the state’s 693 elementary schools. Academic achievement scores were much improved from the prior school year, particularly in fifth and third grade math scores.

Vian Middle School’s overall score ranked 89th among the state’s 600 middle schools, placing Vian in the top 15% of state middle schools and No. 1 in Sequoyah County. It exceeded state averages in all categories and scored a B overall. The middle school’s academic growth score ranked in the top 5% of state middle schools.

Vian High ranked 66th among the state’s 469 high schools in academic achievement, earning a B and placing in the top 15% of Oklahoma high schools in that category. Its overall grade (C) and ranking were held down by its poor F grade in student absenteeism.

The high school’s overall ranking was third in the county, behind Central and Gore, whose overall rankings were boosted by muchbetter absenteeism scores.

Vian ranked second in the county in graduation rate, receiving a grade of C. Gore, Gans and Sallisaw each earned Fs on that benchmark; Central earned a D; and Muldrow earned a county-leading B.

Overall, VMS earned a grade of B, and the elementary and high school, C, but these letter grades are better than they may sound.

The state’s A-to-F grading scales are stringent: Statewide, nearly three quarters of schools received Cs, Ds, or Fs overall.

Numerical scores well above statewide averages can still result in a grade of C. For the second year in a row, no Sequoyah County school at any level got an overall A, and none got an A in either academic achievement or academic growth.

Three county middle schools (Vian, Gore and Muldrow) earned overall Bs, but only one county high school (Central) and one county elementary (Roland) received an overall grade higher than a C.

Vian’s results demonstrate how the state’s grading scales make it tough to get the top letter grades.

For example, VMS got a B in academic growth, even though its score in that category ranked an impressive 27th out of the state’s 598 middle schools. Vian High ranked in the top 30% of Oklahoma high schools but still received an overall grade of C.

Vian Public Shools bested their Sallisaw counterparts in overall rankings and in every academic category. Gore’s school system had a strong showing almost as good as Vian’s: its high school and middle schools were each second in the county, and its elementary ranked third.

The State Department of Education also released detailed academic testing results from the Spring 2025 tests, including statewide averages.

Vian High’s scores were above state averages in every subject, and led the county in English and History. VMS topped state averages in all subjects and all grades, with the exception of one math grade that was one point below the state average. At Vian Elementary, scores for the fourth grade lagged state averages, but third and fifth grades scored well above the state mean.

Vian’s results reflect back-to-back years of substantial improvements, resulting from extensive ongoing efforts by the schools’ teachers and administrators to emphasize academic outcomes at all levels.

State Report Card results (including all the information in this article) are available online at https://oklaschools. com/.