Silo High School is a high school in Durant, Oklahoma

Durant, Oklahoma

Durant is a city in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 15,877 at the 2010 census. Durant is the principal city of the Durant Micropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 42,416 in 2010...

. It serves 9th through 12th grade. The athletic teams are known as the Rebels. The school colors are red and blue. As of 2006, there are currently 100 students enrolled. The Rebel baseball team currently has 3 Fall State Championships 2006, 2007, and 2010. Also having five Spring State Championships from 2002, 2005, 2008,2009, and 2010.

Academics

Some of the elective classes are art

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

, athletics

Sport

A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...

, agricultural education

Agricultural education

Agricultural education is instruction about crop production, livestock management, soil and water conservation, and various other aspects of agriculture. Agricultural education includes instruction in food education, such as nutrition...

, Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 languages, and keyboarding and computer applications.

Athletics

There is Baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

, Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, Cheerleading

Cheerleading

Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...

, Cross Country

Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

, Golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

, Track & Field, Soccer, Softball, Tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

, and Wrestling.

Demographics

The student to teacher ratio

Ratio

In mathematics, a ratio is a relationship between two numbers of the same kind , usually expressed as "a to b" or a:b, sometimes expressed arithmetically as a dimensionless quotient of the two which explicitly indicates how many times the first number contains the second In mathematics, a ratio is...

 is 1:17. The school has a contract with Dell

Dell

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. The campus is a new updated facility with new school buses.

Famous alumni

Although no Silo High School student has risen to National or International fame, a few have managed to become regional celebrities. This includes Dave Hilton (1995), who became a Radio DJ and has worked at KLBC-FM in Durant, OK, KSSU-FM in Durant, OK, KLAK-FM in Denison, TX, KTRX-FM in Ardmore, OK, KYNZ-FM in Ardmore, OK, KKAJ-FM in Ardmore, OK, KVSO-AM in Ardmore, OK, KMKT-FM in Denison, TX and KMAD-FM (known as Mad Rock 102.5) in Denison, TX.