In the year 1897 Miss Lura A. Rowland, a graduate of the Arkansas School for the Blind, solicited funds in behalf of the bind of the Indian Territory and undertook to establish a school for them at Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. This effort was rewarded by the school as a private institution having a history of approximately ten years. There were in all during this period eleven terms, varying in duration from six weeks to nine months, and the total number enrolled was fifty pupils. During the first for years the institution was supported solely by contributions from the people of the Indian Territory and sympathizing states. In 1900 the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations each made appropriations for the education of blind Choctaw and Cherokee children. Repeated efforts were made to have Congress, through the administration of Indian Affairs, to aid the school, but without success. In 1907, for reasons variously stated, the school was moved to Wagoner, but was shortly re-located at Fort Gibson. The First Legislature of the State of Oklahoma appropriated $5,000 - Act approved May 29, 1908 - for the maintenance of the "Lura A. Lowrey School for the Blind," and provided in the same act that the school should be under the control of the State Board of Education. As a state institution the school was supported by legislative appropriations, in amounts varying from twenty to thirty thousand dollars per annum and remained in temporary quarters at Fort Gibson until June, 1913, at which time in accordance with an Act of the Fourth Legislature, it was move to Muskogee, Oklahoma.
3300 Gibson Street
Muskogee, Oklahoma 74403
Phone: 918-781-8200 Fax: 918-781-8300
Website: http://www.osb.k12.ok.us/
| Title | Name | Phone | |
| Superintendent | Karen Kizzia | Ext. 8200 | kekizzia@drs.state.ok.us |
| Education Director | Robert Warren | Ext. 8225 | rwarren@osb.k12.ok.us |
| Athletic Director | Rob Culie | Ext. 8200 | rculie@osb.k12.ok.us |
| Boys Track Coach | |||
| Girls Track Coach | Tera Webb | Ext. 8275 | twebb@osb.k12.ok.us |
| Wrestling Coach | Rob Culie | Ext. 8200 | rculie@osb.k12.ok.us |
| Cheerleading Coach | Tera Webb | Ext. 8275 | twebb@osb.k12.ok.us |
| Recreation Director | Mike Donahue | Ext. 8200 | mdonahue@osb.k12.ok.us |
| Mascot | Panther | ||
| School Colors | Royal Blue & White |