Orchard Farm High School

Orchard Farm High School is one of the reasonably sized secondary schools in St. Charles, Missouri, run under ORCHARD FARM R-V, with 698 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 501 students per school, that is 39% above typical.

Across the 5 schools in ORCHARD FARM R-V (2,241 students total), Orchard Farm High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Orchard Farm High School lists that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 10% Black, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, St. Charles County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Orchard Farm High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.9%, the actual is 36.5%, a residual of -14.4 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for St. Charles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $104,692 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Orchard Farm High School is one of 93 public schools in St. Charles County (combined enrollment of about 59,314 students).

The closest other public school is Early Learning Center, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Orchard Farm High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Orchard Farm High School's enrollment has increased 26% since 2018, when it stood at 556 (now 698). The White share of enrollment shrank from 82% to 75% over that span.

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