Silo High School is a high school in Durant, Oklahoma. It serves 9th through 12th grade. The athletic teams are known as the Rebels. The school colors are red and blue. As of 2017, there are currently 230 students enrolled. The Rebel baseball team currently has four Fall State Championships 2006, 2007, 2010, and 2014. Also having seven Spring State Championships from 2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, and 2017. The school district passed a bond in 2017 to allow a new elementary building to be built.

Academics

Some of the elective classes are

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competi ...

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ...

and Choctaw languages, Keyboarding and Computer Applications I and II, Personal Financial Literacy, Current Events,

Family and Consumer Sciences Home economics, also called domestic science or family and consumer sciences, is a subject concerning human development, personal and family finances, consumer issues, housing and interior design, nutrition and food preparation, as well as texti ...

, ACT Prep,

Web Design Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design; user interface design (UI design); authoring, including standardised code a ...

, Intro To Computers,

Desktop Publishing Desktop publishing (DTP) is the creation of documents using page layout software on a personal ("desktop") computer. It was first used almost exclusively for print publications, but now it also assists in the creation of various forms of online ...

, AG Education I and II, AG Education Power and Technology,

Animal Sciences Animal science is described as "studying the biology of animals that are under the control of humankind". It can also be described as the production and management of farm animals. Historically, the degree was called animal husbandry and the ...

, AG Communication,

Music Appreciation Music appreciation is a division of musicology that is designed to teach students how to understand and describe the contexts and creative processes involved in music composition. The concept of music appreciation is often taught as a subset o ...

, Music Theory,

Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ...

Art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

, and Competitive Academics. Other offered courses are, Pre AP Biology, Environmental Science,

Trigonometry Trigonometry () is a branch of mathematics that studies relationships between side lengths and angles of triangles. The field emerged in the Hellenistic world during the 3rd century BC from applications of geometry to astronomical studies ...

, and Algebra III. Silo encourages students to take concurrent classes at the local colleges. This will count as dual credit for high school and college.

Organizations

Some of the organizations are FCCLA, FCA, BETA, and FFA.

Athletics

There is

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

cheerleading Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense physical activity. It can be performed to motivate sports teams, to ente ...

, cross country,

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

track & field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

. The 2014 Lady Rebel softball team was the first Silo softball team to make it to the state tournament. The 2017 softball team was the first team to make it to the finals of the state tournament. Baseball has a total of 11 state championship titles. The golf team has taken part in the 2014 state tournament and players have individually taken places in it as well. The Silo High School cheer squad competed in the first ever State Game Day competition in 2017 and placed in the top 6 teams. A new weight training and conditioning class was added for both girls and boys.

Demographics

The student to teacher

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is 11.5:1. The campus is a facility with school buses. .

Famous alumni

Recently, a few Silo High School student have risen to National and or International fame, while a few have managed to become regional celebrities. This includes Dave Hilton (1995), a.k.a. "Big Dave" who became a Radio DJ and has worked at KLBC-FM in Durant, OK, KSSU-FM in Durant, OK,

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Mckinney McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas. It is Collin County's third-largest city, after Plano and Frisco. A suburb of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, McKinney is about north of Dallas. The U.S. Census Bureau lis ...

, KTRX-FM in Ardmore, OK, KYNZ-FM in Ardmore, OK,

KKAJ-FM KKAJ-FM is a radio station airing a country music format licensed to Davis, Oklahoma Davis is a city in Garvin and Murray counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 2,683 at the 2010 census. History Davis is named after Samue ...

in Ardmore, KVSO-AM in Ardmore, OK, KMKT-FM in

Sherman Sherman most commonly refers to: *Sherman (name), a surname and given name (and list of persons with the name) ** William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891), American Civil War General *M4 Sherman, a tank Sherman may also refer to: Places United St ...

and

KMAD-FM KMAD-FM (102.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a mainstream rock music format and is known as Mad Rock 102.5 (Mad Rock One Oh Two Five). The station is licensed to Whitesboro, Texas, United States, and owned by Alpha Media, LLC based in Port ...

(known as Mad Rock 102.5) in Sherman, TX. Another Silo High School student,

Mason Dye Mason Andrew Dye (born July 15, 1994) is an American actor known for his roles in ''Teen Wolf'', ''Flowers in the Attic'', and in season four of ''Stranger Things''. Early life Mason Dye was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma. He grew up in Ada, Oklah ...

, is an actor known for a role on the Teen Wolf TV series and starring in the movie, Flowers In The Attic. Mason's sister, Taylor Dye, has become a country singer. She sings in a duo with Maddie Marlow, they are known as

Maddie and Tae Maddie & Tae are an American female country music duo composed of Maddie Font (née Marlow) and Tae Kerr (née Dye), both of whom are singers, songwriters, and guitarists. The duo was signed to the revived Dot Records in 2014. Their debut album, ...

. In 2015, the duo won the Music Association Awards video of the year award. Keach Ballard played baseball for the Rebels and later moved on to play in the minors. Billy Jack Bowen played in the MLB and now coaches at Silo. He was inducted to the Southeastern Oklahoma State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2010.

References

{{authority control Public high schools in Oklahoma Schools in Bryan County, Oklahoma