ORAN HIGH SCHOOL

ORAN HIGH SCHOOL is one of the minimally staffed secondary schools in ORAN, Missouri, one of the schools within ORAN R-III, with 165 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 67% below the state mean of about 501.

ORAN R-III comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 304 students; ORAN HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, ORAN HIGH SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (92%) are White. The remainder comes out to 5% multiracial. By comparison, Scott County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Scott County runs at roughly 78%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ORAN HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.9%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Scott County shows median household earnings sit near $62,782, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ORAN HIGH SCHOOL is one of 22 public schools in Scott County (combined enrollment of about 5,999 students).

The closest other public school is ORAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ORAN HIGH SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 48.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 12%: 187 students in 2018 compared to 165 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for ORAN HIGH SCHOOL typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.