Summary
Orange Glen High is a public school serving grades 9–12 and 1,788 students in Escondido, in the Escondido Union High district. In 2025–26, proficiency was 49% in English language arts (ELA), 17% in math and 22% in science, compared with 49%, 38% and 36% statewide. The graduation rate was 89%, while chronic absenteeism was 24%, six points above the state rate. The clearest concern is math: only 17% of students were proficient, 22 points below the state.
ELA is closest to the state result, but it is still 10 points below the district; math and science are each 7 points below the district. Among nine nearby schools with results, Orange Glen was exactly at the median in both ELA and math. Its science result was fourth-lowest among the eight schools reporting scores and 2 points below the nearby median. The three other regular high schools in the district averaged 70% in ELA, 30% in math and 37% in science—all higher than Orange Glen. Nearby comparisons also include continuation and alternative schools, so they are not all like-for-like.
Since 2022–23, Orange Glen’s science proficiency rose 9 points, math rose 4 and ELA rose 1. Over the same period, the state improved by 6 points in science, 4 in math and 3 in ELA: the science gap narrowed by 3 points, the math gap stayed about 22 points, and the ELA gap shifted from 1 point above the state to 1 below. SchoolDigger ranks the school at the 39th statewide percentile with 2 stars, down 6 percentile points from the prior year. Its student-teacher ratio is 19.1, near the middle of nearby schools. In 2024–25, 89% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, the second-highest rate among 11 nearby schools with the same measure. SchoolDigger’s subgroup ranking was notably higher for White Students—61st percentile versus 39th overall—while its ranking for Disabled Students fell from the 66th percentile in 2020–21 to the 31st in 2021–22. These rankings compare how well the school serves each group.
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