ORANGEFIELD H S

Located at 10058 FM 105, in ORANGEFIELD, Texas, ORANGEFIELD H S is a cozy secondary school that enrolls 563 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by ORANGEFIELD ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so ORANGEFIELD H S sits 29% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in ORANGEFIELD ISD (1,781 students total), ORANGEFIELD H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, ORANGEFIELD H S shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 13% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ORANGEFIELD H S tighter than the state norm the norm. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Orange County's rate of about 56%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ORANGEFIELD H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.3%; this one delivers 68.4%.

In the broader community, Orange County reports that median household earnings sit near $72,104, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Orange County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,100 students), ORANGEFIELD H S is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ORANGEFIELD J H, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around ORANGEFIELD H S. On composite proficiency, ORANGEFIELD H S comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ORANGEFIELD H S has edged up 13%, going from 499 students in 2018 to 563 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 88% to 82% over that span.

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