Orange’s public schools score below 70% of Texas districts
The public schools Orange’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 70% of Texas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
How Orange compares
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Texas’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2019.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of Texas only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so 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.
Where will my kid go?
Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Orange (some depend on your address).
Parts of Orange are served by Bridge City Independent School District and Orangefield Independent School District.
Two districts serve Orange
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
How students score
Orange vs. its neighbors
Orange’s schools rank 2nd of 3 among the towns that share its borders. School Grade, by percentile among Texas districts.
Every school in Orange
7 schools. Grades are based on state tests and graduation. Any other ratings are made by neighbors.
Parents talk
What Orange families are saying about school.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Colleges in Orange
1 college in Orange, and 4 more within 30 miles.
Straight-line distance from the center of Orange. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within Texas. Stars are from neighbors.