Orange Cove High

Orange Cove High is a secondary school of intimate scale in Orange Cove, California, one of the schools within Kings Canyon Joint Unified, caters to 635 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Orange Cove High sits 24% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 21 schools in Kings Canyon Joint Unified (9,696 students total), Orange Cove High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Orange Cove High logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). By comparison, Fresno County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 18.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Fresno County's rate of about 75%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Orange Cove High sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 25.2%; actual is 48.1%, +22.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Fresno County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Fresno County runs 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), of which Orange Cove High is one.

Citrus Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Orange Cove High at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 36.6%.

Orange Cove High operates from a town-based location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Orange Cove High has declined 3%, going from 652 students in 2018 to 635 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.

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