WEST ORANGE-STARK MIDDLE

Located at 1402 W GREEN AVE, in ORANGE, Texas, WEST ORANGE-STARK MIDDLE is a cozy middle school that educates 492 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by WEST ORANGE-COVE CISD. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 23% leaner than typical.

WEST ORANGE-COVE CISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,592 students; WEST ORANGE-STARK MIDDLE is among them.

On the student-mix side, WEST ORANGE-STARK MIDDLE reports that the most-represented group is Black (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 24% Hispanic, 16% White, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 8% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting WEST ORANGE-STARK MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 90% of students at WEST ORANGE-STARK MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, WEST ORANGE-STARK MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.5%; this one delivers 23.9%.

Across the wider county, 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%. WEST ORANGE-STARK MIDDLE is one of 25 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 15,100 students).

TEKOA ACADEMY OF ACCELERATED STUDIES - ORANGE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WEST ORANGE-STARK MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, WEST ORANGE-STARK MIDDLE comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 33.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WEST ORANGE-STARK MIDDLE has contracted 4%, going from 515 students in 2018 to 492 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 18% to 24%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.