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What's the biggest difference between ORANGE GROVE EL and what you expected?
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Enrollment
516
Elementary
DISTRICT 569 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALDINE ISD·NCES 480771000081
Orange Grove Elementary School
4514 MOUNT HOUSTON RD, HOUSTON, TX 77093 · (281) 985-6540 · Harris County
GRADES 01–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL516 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 26% of Texas public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-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 Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
450 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 88 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 111 | 22% |
| Grade 3 | 107 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 104 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 106 | 21% |
This year's 1st grade class (88) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (106).
Student demographics
9%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 63% · 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
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
41.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +29.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
47.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +36.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 29 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 36 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 19.0% | 22.0% | 26.0% | 33.0% |
| Mathematics | 16.0% | 31.0% | 26.0% | 27.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 41.0% | 47.0% |
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 40.0% |
| 2023-24 | 29.0% | 35.0% |
| 2022-23 | 26.0% | 31.0% |
| 2021-22 | 28.0% | 28.0% |
| 2020-21 | 12.0% | 11.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
30.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.5%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 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 Grove Elementary School
Orange Grove Elementary School's state test result (30.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orange Grove Elementary School this school | 516 | 87.2% | 30.7% |
| Creedmoor Elementary School CREEDMOOR | 525 | 87.4% | 25.7% |
| Pfc Mario Ybarra Elementary School WESLACO | 503 | 88.3% | 39.7% |
| C Stainke Elementary School DONNA | 509 | 88.0% | 38.7% |
| Jubilee Leadership Academy BROWNSVILLE | 545 | 87.3% | 30.3% |
| Campestre Elementary School EL PASO | 488 | 86.3% | 46.6% |
Matched among Texas elementary 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 Grove Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.7% | #3,592 of 4,401 | #521 of 624 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #2,012 of 4,466 ▲ 643 | #274 of 625 ▲ 100 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #3,523 of 4,466 ▼ 55 | #495 of 625 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +15.5pp | #809 of 3,998 | #110 of 603 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 516 | #2,363 of 4,938 | #451 of 682 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #2,546 of 4,622 | #342 of 657 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.0% | #4,139 of 4,628 | #616 of 657 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.2% | #1,366 of 4,789 | #324 of 671 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -40.1% | #169 of 2,838 | #48 of 441 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
516
-135 (-21%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 799
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 516 | 34.2 | 15.1:1 | 87% (450) |
| 2023-24 | 539 | 36 | 15.0:1 | 93% (500) |
| 2022-23 | 581 | 27.4 | 21.2:1 | 96% (555) |
| 2020-21 | 651 | 42 | 15.5:1 | 94% (613) |
| 2017-18 | 862 | 53.7 | 16.1:1 | 91% (788) |
| 2015-16 | 927 | 56 | 16.6:1 | 93% (858) |
| 2010-11 | 731 | 43 | 17.0:1 | 79% (575) |
| 2000-01 | 694 | 48 | 14.5:1 | 84% (581) |
| 1990-91 | 799 | 42 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Orange Grove Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 40% (862 to 516); teachers down 36% (53.7 to 34.2).
About Orange Grove Elementary School
As a medium-sized elementary school, Orange Grove Elementary School serves students in HOUSTON, Texas. Grades offered run from 1 through 5, with 516 students enrolled.
Orange Grove Elementary School sits within ALDINE ISD, which has 76 schools and 56,419 students.
Orange Grove Elementary School's enrollment is 95% Hispanic. The school's Hispanic share is 51 points above the 44% share among Harris County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 9% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.1:1 at Orange Grove Elementary School, with 34.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. That matches the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas fairly closely. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 87%. Across public schools in Harris County, the average is 70%.
Measured against Texas public elementary schools, Orange Grove Elementary School receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
After adjusting for student poverty, Orange Grove Elementary School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Texas schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 30.7%; the prediction is 36.5%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Harris County show that the median household income is $74,983, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. Besides Orange Grove Elementary School, Harris County has 1,204 other public schools.
The nearest public school is Macarthur High School, at about 0.8 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 32.3% proficiency; Orange Grove Elementary School posts 30.7%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment declined 21% from its 2020-21 level of 651.
Community posts for Orange Grove Elementary School can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Harris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,838,303
Census ACS
Median income
$74,983
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,205
886,911 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALDINE ISD
- Macarthur High SchoolHigh · 3,501 students
- Davis H S AldineHigh · 3,184 students
- Nimitz High SchoolHigh · 2,651 students
- Aldine High SchoolHigh · 2,481 students
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 2,262 students
- Blanson CTE High SchoolHigh · 1,258 students
Other schools in HOUSTON
- Texas Connections Academy at HoustonCombined · 8,641 students
- North Shore Senior HighHigh · 4,284 students
- Elsik High SchoolHigh · 4,057 students
- Summer Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,972 students
- Hastings High SchoolHigh · 3,786 students
- C E King High SchoolHigh · 3,716 students
Other Orange Grove Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 5 states are named Orange Grove Elementary. Orange Grove Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 7.
- Orange Grove Elementary SchoolORANGE GROVE, TX · 386 students
- Orange Grove ElementaryAnaheim, CA · 548 students
- Orange Grove Elementary SchoolSomerton, AZ · 412 students
- ORANGE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSEMINOLE, FL · 405 students
- Orange Grove ElementaryGulfport, MS · 346 students
Nearby schools
- Macarthur High School0.8 mi · 3,501
- Hambrick Middle School0.8 mi · 965
- Escamilla Elementary School0.9 mi · 809
- Worsham Elementary School0.9 mi · 449
- Two Dimensions/Vickery0.9 mi · 203
- Garcia-Leza Ec/PK/K1.0 mi · 617
Frequently asked questions
About Orange Grove Elementary SchoolHow large is Orange Grove Elementary School?
Orange Grove Elementary School enrolls approximately 516 students in grades 01-05.
What age range does Orange Grove Elementary School serve?
Orange Grove Elementary School serves students from grade 01 through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Orange Grove Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Orange Grove Elementary School is approximately 15.1:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Orange Grove Elementary School?
Student demographics at Orange Grove Elementary School are roughly 2% White, 95% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Orange Grove Elementary School public or private?
Orange Grove Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by ALDINE ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.