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What's something Orange Cove High does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
635
High
DISTRICT 709 · STATE 838
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KINGS CANYON JOINT UNIFIED·NCES 061970010782
Orange Cove High
1700 Anchor Ave., Orange Cove, CA 93646 · (559) 626-5900 · Fresno County
GRADES 09–12HIGH32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL635 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 72% of California public high schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public high schools
Student : Teacher
18.5:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.9:1 · STATE 18.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
579 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 181 | 29% |
| Grade 10 | 156 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 143 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 155 | 24% |
Student demographics
5%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
72.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +7.3pp since 2014
Math
20.0%
CA avg 37.7% . -4.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 30.8% | 41.5% | 15.4% | 12.3% |
| Math | 5.4% | 14.6% | 33.9% | 46.1% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.3% | 20.0% |
| 2023-24 | 73.1% | 23.1% |
| 2022-23 | 68.5% | 33.6% |
| 2021-22 | 82.5% | 28.6% |
| 2020-21 | 67.6% | 22.7% |
| 2018-19 | 70.6% | 18.9% |
| 2017-18 | 76.5% | 25.6% |
| 2016-17 | 71.4% | 28.4% |
| 2015-16 | 60.0% | 23.0% |
| 2014-15 | 65.0% | 24.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
47.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 26% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Orange Cove High
Orange Cove High's state test result (47.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orange Cove High this school | 635 | 91.2% | 47.1% |
| Williams Junior/Senior High Williams | 588 | 92.2% | 24.5% |
| Animo Leadership High Inglewood | 634 | 92.7% | N/A |
| Alliance Marc & Eva Stern Math and Science Los Angeles | 558 | 89.8% | N/A |
| Linda Esperanza Marquez High A Hntngtn Park Inst of Appl Med Huntington Park | 729 | 93.4% | 49.0% |
| Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy Huntington Park | 615 | 94.3% | 42.6% |
Matched among California high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Orange Cove High ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Fresno County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.1% | #368 of 1,052 | #13 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #679 of 1,056 ▼ 158 | #22 of 36 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.3% | #208 of 1,056 ▼ 27 | #9 of 36 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -9.4pp | #50 of 1,044 | #3 of 34 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 635 | #919 of 2,093 | #30 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.5:1 | #346 of 1,352 | #12 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 4.6% | #1,309 of 1,351 | #38 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.2% | #258 of 1,575 | #11 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.6% | #725 of 802 | #16 of 17 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
635
-25 (-4%) vs 2020
+2% since 2010-11, when it was 623
Student : Teacher
18.5:1
was 26.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 635 | 34.3 | 18.5:1 | 91% (579) |
| 2023-24 | 631 | 30.8 | 20.5:1 | 94% (594) |
| 2022-23 | 638 | 31.7 | 20.1:1 | 95% (604) |
| 2020-21 | 660 | 25 | 26.4:1 | 96% (635) |
| 2017-18 | 652 | 27.1 | 24.1:1 | 92% (598) |
| 2015-16 | 631 | 23 | 27.4:1 | 95% (601) |
| 2010-11 | 623 | N/A | N/A | 75% (466) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Orange Cove High.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (652 to 635); teachers up 26% (27.1 to 34.3).
About Orange Cove High
Students in Orange Cove, California, attend Orange Cove High, a small high school. It reported 635 students in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. High schools in California average about 838 students, which makes this school 24% below average.
Kings Canyon Joint Unified runs Orange Cove High along with 20 other schools, enrolling 9,696 students in total.
A large majority of enrollment at Orange Cove High is Hispanic, at 98%. Among all residents of Fresno County, the Hispanic share is about 55%. The diversity index for Orange Cove High is 5%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 18.5:1. The school has 34.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 18.2:1 average for high schools in California is close to this figure. In all, 91% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 75% average for public schools in Fresno County is 16 points.
On the allk12 Grade, Orange Cove High lands at B+, ahead of 72% of California public high schools.
Orange Cove High posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 47.1%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in California are predicted to post 26.1%, so the school is 21.0 points ahead and in the state's top 10%.
The school is in Fresno County, where the median household earns about $74,201 a year, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 14% of residents are in poverty. Across Fresno County, 368 public schools serve about 206,072 students.
Among nearby public schools, Citrus Middle is closest at about 0.3 miles. Orange Cove High is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Orange Cove High comes in 2nd of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Orange Cove High as Town: Distant.
From 660 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 635 by 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 18.5:1, from 26.4:1.
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Fresno County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,016,725
Census ACS
Median income
$74,201
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
368
206,072 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Kings Canyon Joint Unified
- Reedley HighHigh · 1,804 students
- Silas BartschElementary · 606 students
- Citrus MiddleMiddle · 602 students
- Thomas Law Reed ElementaryElementary · 558 students
- General Grant MiddleMiddle · 526 students
- Riverview ElementaryElementary · 509 students
Other schools in Orange Cove
- Citrus MiddleMiddle · 602 students
- McCord ElementaryElementary · 426 students
- Sheridan ElementaryElementary · 393 students
- A. L. Conner ElementaryElementary · 308 students
Nearby schools
- Citrus Middle0.3 mi · 602
- Sheridan Elementary0.5 mi · 393
- McCord Elementary1.2 mi · 426
- A. L. Conner Elementary1.4 mi · 308
- Kings Canyon Continuation3.5 mi · 141
- Alta Elementary4.3 mi · 364
Frequently asked questions
About Orange Cove HighWhat is the total enrollment at Orange Cove High?
Orange Cove High enrolls approximately 635 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Orange Cove High serve?
Orange Cove High serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does Orange Cove High have?
Orange Cove High employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Orange Cove High?
At Orange Cove High, the student body is approximately 1% White, 98% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Two or more.
Is Orange Cove High public or private?
Orange Cove High is a public K-12 school, overseen by Kings Canyon Joint Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.