Summary:
Zip code 77631 is served by a single high school, West Orange-Stark High School, which is part of the West Orange-Cove Consolidated Independent School District in Orange, Texas, and serves grades 9 through 12 with a total enrollment of 659 students.
West Orange-Stark High School faces significant academic challenges, with proficiency rates on state exams that are 20 to 30 percentage points lower than the Texas state average in every core subject. For example, only 36.77% of students are proficient in Algebra I compared to the state average of 54.03%, and just 40.21% are proficient in Biology versus the state's 70.51%. The school's state ranking is low, placing in the 17th percentile (1,674 out of 2,009 schools) for the 2025-2026 school year, though this represents a slight positive trend from the 13th percentile in 2023-2024. A very high percentage of students (87.25%) are economically disadvantaged, as indicated by eligibility for free or reduced lunch.
Despite these academic struggles, the school has some positive resource indicators, including a favorable student-teacher ratio of 11.2:1 and per-student spending of $13,025. The graduation rate is 84.9%, which is notable given the high poverty rate, but this contrasts sharply with low proficiency on state exams—for instance, only 31.25% of students are proficient in English I Reading. The dropout rate of 2.6% is slightly higher than the district average of 2.0%. The school's test scores are identical to the district's in most subjects, confirming it is the only high school in the district, though the district outperforms the school in Algebra I (45.56% vs. 36.77%), possibly due to students testing at other campuses.
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