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ORANGE GROVE PRI
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ORANGE GROVE PRI
ORANGE GROVE PRI is one of the small K-5 schools in ORANGE GROVE, Texas, part of ORANGE GROVE ISD, with 409 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 2. That puts it 21% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
ORANGE GROVE ISD runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,648 students. ORANGE GROVE PRI is one of those campuses.
On demographics, ORANGE GROVE PRI logs that 66% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 32% 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 resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 68% of students are eligible 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 somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Jim Wells County indicate the typical household earns roughly $51,896 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. ORANGE GROVE PRI is one of 16 public schools in Jim Wells County (combined enrollment of about 7,302 students).
Nearest neighbor: ORANGE GROVE H S, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ORANGE GROVE PRI has grew 18%, going from 346 students in 2018 to 409 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 41% to 32% across the same window.
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