Seminole High School is a

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located in

Seminole, Oklahoma Seminole ( sac, Sheminônîheki) is a city in Seminole County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 7,488 at the 2010 census. Seminole experienced a large population growth in the 1920s due to an oil boom. History The city was platted i ...

, operated by Seminole Public Schools. As of the 2006–07 school year, the school had an enrollment of 482 students and 30.6 classroom teachers (on a FTE basis), for a

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of 15.8.District information for Seminole High School

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. Accessed November 1, 2009. In 2015, students were moved out of the high school due to safety concerns with the building that was originally built in 1930. In 2017, Seminole voters approved construction of a brand new high school to be built on the northwest side of the city. In January 2020, at the beginning of the second semester of the 2019–2020 school year, the students were moved out of the temporary building with the new facility having been completed.

Notable alumni

* Ronald Chase, artist, film maker, opera designer *

Edmond Harjo Edmond Andrew Harjo (November 24, 1917 – March 31, 2014) was an American Seminole Code Talker during World War II. Harjo, who served with his brothers at the Normandy landings and the Battle of the Bulge, was the last surviving code talker from ...

(Seminole, 1917–2014),

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during

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, recipient of the

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Troy Smith Troy James Smith (born July 20, 1984) is a former American football quarterback. He played college football at Ohio State, was recognized as an All-American, and won the Heisman Trophy in 2006. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the fi ...

(1922-2009), founder of

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* Stewart Stover, former professional football player *

Heather Wahlquist Heather Wahlquist (born May 23, 1977) is an American film and television actress. She was married to director/writer Nick Cassavetes and has appeared in several of his films. Wahlquist was raised in Oklahoma, where she graduated from Seminole Hi ...

, actress *

William C. Wantland William Charles Wantland (born April 14, 1934) is an American Anglican Bishop. He is a former Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Eau Claire. Biography Wantland was born in Edmond, Oklahoma. He is of Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw descent. In 197 ...

, Bishop of the

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Mary Jo Watson Mary Jo Watson is a Seminole art historian and director emeritus and a regents professor at the School of Art and Art History at the University of Oklahoma. Her work focuses on the theory and development of teaching methodology for Native Ameri ...

(Seminole) art historian and director emeritus of the University of Oklahoma's Art and Art History * Don E. Schultz, considered the "father of Integrated Marketing Communications"

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