ORANGE GROVE J H

Set in ORANGE GROVE, Texas, ORANGE GROVE J H is a tight-knit junior high, one of the schools within ORANGE GROVE ISD. It hosts 357 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so ORANGE GROVE J H sits 44% smaller than that benchmark.

ORANGE GROVE ISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,648 students; ORANGE GROVE J H is among them.

Demographically, ORANGE GROVE J H shows that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 40% White. By comparison, Jim Wells County as a whole is about 80% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably less Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, ORANGE GROVE J H has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Jim Wells County's rate of about 83%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ORANGE GROVE J H sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.5%; this one delivers 50.1%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jim Wells County) records that median household income runs about $51,896, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. Across Jim Wells County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,302 students), ORANGE GROVE J H is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ORANGE GROVE EL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ORANGE GROVE J H ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 48.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 19%: 442 students in 2018 compared to 357 in 2025.

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