ORANGE GROVE H S

ORANGE GROVE H S is one of the close-knit four-year high schools in ORANGE GROVE, Texas, operated by ORANGE GROVE ISD, with 496 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 38% smaller than the state mean of about 796.

ORANGE GROVE H S is one of 4 schools operated by ORANGE GROVE ISD, a district that educates 1,648 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ORANGE GROVE H S reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 36% White. That is meaningfully less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

In terms of school funding signals, ORANGE GROVE H S lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 60% 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, Jim Wells County runs at roughly 83%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ORANGE GROVE H S ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 47.5%; ORANGE GROVE H S posts 63.1%, +15.6 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jim Wells County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $51,896 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. In all, Jim Wells County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,302 students), of which ORANGE GROVE H S is one.

ORANGE GROVE PRI is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ORANGE GROVE H S comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.8%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. ORANGE GROVE H S's enrollment has contracted 7% since 2018, when it stood at 531 (now 496).

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