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, near Conroe, and within the

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. In 2021–2022, the school received a B grade from the

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. The school serves:Oak Ridge/Grand Oaks Feeder Zone High School Attendance Zones
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. The Academy for Careers in Engineering and Science, which opened in 2018–2019, operates inside the Oak Ridge 9th grade campus. Oak Ridge also supports an Air Force

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program.

History

The Conroe ISD Academy of Science and Technology opened inside of Oak Ridge High School in 1987. The academy began moving students to the newly opened

in the fall of 2005 to accommodate the expected growth in students attending Oak Ridge from its attendance zone. The academy gradually transitioned from Oak Ridge to College Park from fall 2005 to spring 2007, allowing students already enrolled in the program at Oak Ridge in 2003–2004 to remain. By 2015, the school's enrollment exceeded its capacity. The combined, 9-12 enrollment of the school was 3,768. To accommodate the school's population growth, the district allocated 24 portable classroom buildings for the main campus and 4 portables for the 9th grade campus. In 2018, the district estimated the school's capacity to be 3,650. For the 2017–2018 school year, the Oak Ridge High student population had increased to 4,400. Grand Oaks High School, which opened in August 2018, reduced the size of Oak Ridge's attendance zone. Due to the opening of Grand Oaks High School, the district estimated that enrollment at Oak Ridge will drop to 2,270 by the year 2020. Conroe ISD opened its 3rd STEM academy, the Academy for Careers in Engineering and Science, inside the Oak Ridge 9th grade campus at the beginning of the 2018–2019 school year.

Demographics

In the 2020–2021 school year, there were 2,514 students enrolled at Oak Ridge High School. The ethnic distribution of students was as follows: * 43.7% White * 35.0% Hispanic * 13.5% African American * 3.8% Asian * 0.3% American Indian * 0.0% Pacific Islander * 3.7% Two or more races 34.0% of students were eligible for free or reduced-cost lunch.

Academics

For each school year, the

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rates school performance using an A–F grading system based on statistical data. For 2021–2022, the school received a score of 85 out of 100, resulting in a B grade. Schools were not rated in 2019–2020 or 2020–2021 due to the

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. The school received a score of 89 in 2017–2018 and 2018–2019.

Feeder schools

Feeder K–6 school(s) to Oak Ridge High School include: *Suchma (excluding Stonecrest subdivision)Caney Creek Elementary Feeder Map School Year 2019–2020.
Conroe Independent School District. Retrieved April 14, 2020. Feeder elementary school(s) to Oak Ridge High School include: *Ford (excluding Fox Run & Spring Creek Pines) *Houser *Kaufman *Oak Ridge

References

External links

Oak Ridge High School home page
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