Since its earliest years, Wilson has surrounded students with the arts. At one of the first Patrons meetings in the 1920s, the members voted to use $139 to buy a Victrola and records. At the annual music memory festival held in the Central High School auditorium in 1924, Wilson performers received special mention in the newspaper for their dramatization of “Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture” which the students had worked out by themselves. In the 1930s, first grade teacher Mrs. Romine organized a music club, taught violin and conducted an orchestra. Wilson musicians participated in a 900- piece symphonic orchestra concert at Memorial Park in the spring of 1937.

A very special part of Wilson is the amazing art that surrounds the building both inside and outside, including extraordinary 1934 murals that are some of the nation's first New Deal era art. These murals created demands for additional art pieces for the school building.

Wilson's curriculum also has focused on the arts throughout the years with Artist-in-Residence programs and in 1998 Wilson was designated as the state's first specialty school for arts integration. Wilson continues today as a partner school with the Partners in Education Program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and Black Liberated Arts Center (BLAC, Inc.) in Oklahoma City, for professional development of teachers in arts integration.

Wilson provides a diverse student body with excellent educational opportunities. In 1998, Wilson was designated as the State’s first specialty school for arts integration. Wilson is a partner school with the Partners in Education Program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and Black Liberated Arts Center (BLAC), Inc. in Oklahoma City, for professional development of teachers in arts integration.

In the 1990s, Principal Beverly Story had a vision to teach children through the arts. She and several staff members visited Kennedy Center schools across the country and realized the impact arts integration could have on Wilson students.

At that same time, Anita Arnold at BLAC, Inc. had established a partnership with Oklahoma City Public Schools through the Partners in Education program and she invited Wilson to join the partnership as an arts integration pilot school.

Arts integration is an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both. Wilson’s classroom teachers and fine arts specialists in drama, vocal music, instrumental music, visual art, and dance worked as a team to integrate the arts and required classroom skills.

The arts integration program has been extraordinarily successful as Wilson is consistently one of the top performers in the district. In addition, many Wilson students continue to study the arts in high school and college and pursue careers in the arts.