Orange County High

Orange County High is a 9-12 campus of moderately sized scale in Orange, Virginia, overseen by Orange County Public Schools, educateing 1,477 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 22% bigger than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 1,213 students.

Within Orange County Public Schools, which oversees 9 schools and 5,074 students, Orange County High is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Orange County High reports that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 14% Black, 9% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 91 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Orange County High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 69% of students at Orange County High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Orange County High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.5%, the actual is 72.1%, a residual of +2.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $94,008 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Orange County High is one of 11 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 5,074 students).

Nearest neighbor: Orange Elementary, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Orange County High. On composite proficiency, Orange County High comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 71.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Orange County High's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 1,484 (now 1,477). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 7% to 17%.

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