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Enrollment
876
High
DISTRICT 702 · STATE 573
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ORTING SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530645000953
Orting High School
320 Washington Avenue North, Orting, WA 98360 · (360) 893-2246 · Pierce County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL876 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of Washington public high schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public high schools
Student : Teacher
21.4:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.8:1 · STATE 21.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
323 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 231 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 224 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 222 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 199 | 23% |
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Orting School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
57.9%
WA avg 58.4% . +13.9pp since 2014
Math
25.7%
WA avg 51.2% . +6.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 14 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.9% | 25.7% |
| 2023-24 | 60.7% | 21.3% |
| 2022-23 | 60.5% | 22.8% |
| 2021-22 | 66.5% | 27.8% |
| 2018-19 | 71.9% | 34.0% |
| 2017-18 | 77.7% | 37.3% |
| 2016-17 | 24.4% | 19.1% |
| 2015-16 | 19.1% | 27.1% |
| 2014-15 | 43.9% | 19.1% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
41.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 55% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Orting High School
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orting High School this school | 876 | 36.9% | 41.5% |
| Bellingham High School Bellingham | 1,165 | 35.5% | 51.7% |
| Ellensburg High School Ellensburg | 957 | 38.2% | 48.1% |
| Vancouver iTech Preparatory VANCOUVER | 600 | 36.3% | N/A |
| Columbia River High VANCOUVER | 1,138 | 32.6% | N/A |
| Vancouver School of Arts and Academics VANCOUVER | 787 | 31.4% | N/A |
Matched among Washington high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Orting High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #144 of 271 | #16 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.7% | #191 of 321 ▲ 19 | #16 of 32 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.9% | #166 of 327 ▼ 3 | #20 of 33 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.4pp | #58 of 259 | #7 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 876 | #170 of 570 | #24 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.4:1 | #199 of 311 | #17 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.8% | #175 of 316 | #30 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.9% | #291 of 386 | #30 of 39 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.4% | #67 of 136 | #8 of 17 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
876
+208 (+31%) vs 2020
+188% since 1990-91, when it was 304
Student : Teacher
21.4:1
was 17.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 876 | 41 | 21.4:1 | 37% (323) |
| 2023-24 | 881 | 40.1 | 22.0:1 | 35% (307) |
| 2022-23 | 864 | 39.2 | 22.0:1 | 31% (265) |
| 2020-21 | 668 | 38 | 17.6:1 | 30% (198) |
| 2017-18 | 801 | 37.4 | 21.4:1 | 32% (255) |
| 2015-16 | 802 | 34 | 23.6:1 | 33% (267) |
| 2010-11 | 719 | 32 | 22.5:1 | 31% (226) |
| 2000-01 | 514 | 25 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 304 | 15 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Orting High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 9% (801 to 876); teachers up 10% (37.4 to 41).
About Orting High School
Orting High School is one of the public schools in Orting, Washington. It is a large high school. The school serves 876 students in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. The average among high schools in Washington is roughly 573 students; this school is 53% larger than that.
Orting High School is one school in Orting School District, a system of 4 schools with 2,809 students.
A majority of students at Orting High School, 65%, are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 18% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 3% Black, and 2% Asian. That is close to the 64% White share among all Pierce County residents. Orting High School has a diversity index of 54%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Its teaching staff equals 41 full-time positions, a ratio of 21.4:1. High schools in Washington have a similar average ratio of 21.6:1. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 37%. The gap from the 50% average for public schools in Pierce County is 13 points.
The allk12 Grade for Orting High School is C-. Compared with Washington public high schools, the school scored higher than 19% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Orting High School is 14.0 points below expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the bottom 10% in Washington.
Federal survey data for Pierce County show that median household income is about $99,564, roughly 31% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Orting High School is among the 287 public schools in Pierce County.
The school nearest to Orting High School is Orting Elementary School, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Orting High School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Orting High School had 668 students in 2020-21 and 876 in 2024-25, a 31% increase. The ratio of students to teachers went from 17.6:1 to 21.4:1 over the same years.
The Orting High School community page is open for posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Orting School District
- Ptarmigan Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 723 students
- Orting Middle SchoolMiddle · 643 students
- Orting Elementary SchoolElementary · 567 students
- Orting Special EducationElementary
- Orting Elementary Online AcademyCombined
- Orting Secondary Online AcademyCombined
Other schools in Orting
- Ptarmigan Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 723 students
- Orting Middle SchoolMiddle · 643 students
- Orting Elementary SchoolElementary · 567 students
- Orting Special EducationElementary
- Orting Elementary Online AcademyCombined
- Orting Secondary Online AcademyCombined
Nearby schools
- Orting Elementary School0.1 mi · 567
- Orting Middle School0.4 mi · 643
- Ptarmigan Ridge Elementary School0.5 mi · 723
- Tehaleh Heights Elementary School1.9 mi · 627
- G W Edgerton Elementary2.4 mi · 753
- Glacier View Junior High2.5 mi · 843
Frequently asked questions
About Orting High SchoolHow many students attend Orting High School?
Orting High School enrolls approximately 876 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Orting High School serve?
Orting High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Orting High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Orting High School is approximately 21.4:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Orting High School?
At Orting High School, the student body is approximately 65% White, 18% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Orting High School public or private?
Orting High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Orting School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.