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Black student results in Orange County Schools

Across 12 schools in Orange County Schools, 45.1% of Black students meet grade level proficient+. That is 3.3 points above the North Carolina average for Black students.

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59.8%
All students
45.1%
Black
46.4%
Hispanic
74.1%
White
70.7%
Asian

Average across the 12 schools in Orange County Schools with reportable results, giving each school equal weight regardless of size. A group is omitted from a school when too few students were tested to report safely.

The distance inside one district

Among the 12 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Hillsborough Elementary reports 79.5% of Black students meeting the standard. River Park Elementary, in the same district, reports 23.3%. That is a 56.2-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Orange County Schools

Ranked by the share of Black students meeting grade level proficient+. Every group is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
Hillsborough Elementary 79.6% 79.5% 77.8% 79.3%
Cedar Ridge High 57.6% 57.3% 32.6% 78.8% 95%
Efland Cheeks Elementary 61.6% 51.3% 54.2% 75.1% 73.7%
A L Stanback Middle 52.9% 48.3% 35.1% 74.2% 93.1%
New Hope Elementary 55.2% 48.1% 43.6% 75.7%
Pathways Elementary 70.6% 47.1% 62.7% 79.1%
Gravelly Hill Middle 51.8% 41.1% 42.5% 63% 69.2%
Grady Brown Elementary 55.1% 40.7% 37% 74.4%
Orange High 53.3% 37.1% 36.3% 68.6% 56.3%
Orange Middle 62.1% 35.3% 39.7% 76.2% 72.7%
Central Elementary 48.4% 32.6% 48.2% 60.3% 45.5%
River Park Elementary 69.8% 23.3% 47.1% 84.3% 60%

Flags show magnet, charter, alternative and virtual schools. Some campuses — early college and specialized academies among them — also admit by application, and this page cannot yet identify all of them. Check with the district before assuming a school is open to your address.

How to read this. North Carolina suppresses results above 95% or below 5% to protect student privacy. Those schools are shown at the 95% or 5% boundary and are excluded from headline statistics. Because every state sets its own proficiency standard, North Carolina figures should not be compared against another state's.

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