Summary:
The 07050 zip code is home to a single high school, Orange High School, which serves students in grades 9-12. The school's performance has declined in recent years, with a statewide ranking that has dropped from 356 out of 422 New Jersey high schools in 2022-2023 to 398 out of 434 in 2024-2025, earning a 1-star rating out of 5.
Despite a relatively high four-year graduation rate of 91.3% for the 2023-2024 school year, Orange High School faces significant academic challenges. Proficiency rates in NJSLA and NJGPA assessments are significantly lower than state and district averages, with only 23.6% of 9th-grade students proficient or better in English Language Arts, and proficiency rates in Algebra I ranging from 9.1% to 14.6% for various grade levels, all well below state averages. The school's performance in science and mathematics assessments is also notably lower than the state and district averages.
The school serves a predominantly low-income student population, with 57.52% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. This socioeconomic factor may contribute to the academic challenges faced by the school, which also grapples with a chronic absenteeism rate of 14.9% and a dropout rate of 1.0% for the 2023-2024 school year. The school's per-student spending for the 2018-2019 school year was $11,681, which could be a useful data point for comparison purposes.
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