Schools · Orange

Orange, KS schools

Orange’s public schools score well above Kansas’s averages: 43% of students are proficient in reading against 35.5% statewide, and 87% of high schoolers graduate on time against 88%. Kids attend Fort Larned Elementary School through grade 5, then Larned Middle School and Larned Sr High.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

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Orange’s School Grade: B

The public schools Orange’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 61% of Kansas’s districts on state tests and graduation.

A-Test scoresCGraduation
Kansas school districts we grade (283)Better than 61%
Lower resultsHigher results
Towns in Pawnee County (21)Better than 14%
Good confidence. Built on 400 tested students and a graduating class of 65; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
  • Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Kansas’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
  • The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
  • Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Kansas only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
  • Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Kansas with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
  • What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path

Where Orange kids go to school

Grades 9–12
B-Larned Sr High 234 students · Larned Fort Larned Unified School District 495

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

Well above the state in reading

Reading (grades PK–12, Fort Larned Unified School District 495)43%
State average 35.5%
Math (grades PK–12, Fort Larned Unified School District 495)32%
State average 27.9%
Graduation · class of 2020

87% graduate on time

Graduation rate
87%
KS: 88%
Graduating class
65
students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

The district serving Orange

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Orange

There’s no college in Orange, but 1 college is within 30 miles. The closest is Barclay College in Haviland, 29.6 miles away.

Straight-line distance from the center of Orange. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.

We don’t have any schools located in Orange yet.

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