Daniel Webster High School is a high school in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[a] It is part of the Tulsa Public Schools, and is a public school for students from grades 9 through 12. The school opened in 1938 in the West Tulsa section of the city,[2][3] and is housed in a PWA-style Art Deco building designed by architects Arthur M. Atkinson, John Duncan Forsyth, Raymond Kerr, and William H. Wolaver.[4][5]
Daniel Webster High School | |
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1919 West 40th Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma | |
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Type | Public broadcasting and digital media magnet school |
Established | 1938 |
Principal | Shelly Holman |
Staff | 28.70 (FTE)[1] |
Grades | 9-12 |
Number of students | 479 (2018–19)[1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 16.69[1] |
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Mascot | Warrior |
Website | Daniel Webster High School |
In 2021, Daniel Webster High School was placed on the National Historic Registry as a Historical District: OKLAHOMA, TULSA COUNTY, Daniel Webster High School Historic District, 1919 West 40th St.,Tulsa, SG100006632, LISTED, 6/10/2021. Oklahoma's National Register of Historic Places' link: http://nr2_shpo.okstate.edu/QueryResult.aspx?id=SG100006632
In 2009, the school established a broadcasting and digital media magnet school program.[6]
The main building is two stories high plus a full basement. It contains 15 classrooms, a library, 2 cafeterias, a lecture room, a corrective gymnasium, a girls’ gymnasium, a 400-seat auditorium, a domestic-science department, 2 manual training rooms, 3 laboratories, offices, and dressing rooms. An adjacent building contains shops, the boys' gymnasium, and lockers. Both buildings are made of fireproof construction with exterior walls of brick and trimmed with stone.[7]
Rep. Ballinger attended Tulsa Webster high school.
A lifelong Tulsa resident, I received my high school diploma from Webster High School, went to work for my family's business and then ran for public office in 1998.
Rich "Dick" Calmus, a lanky, right-handed and two-time All-State pitcher, helped transform Webster High School into a baseball powerhouse in the 1960s with back-to-back 1961 and 1962 state championships.
Also honored were... Carl Morton from Daniel Webster High School
...graduated from Tulsa's Webster High School
I graduated from Tulsa Webster High School in 1946 and attended the University of Tulsa (1946-1948) before I entered flight training at Pensacola.
Webster High grad Mitch Schauer illustrates Nickelodeon's The Angry Beavers.
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