Orange Park High School

Truly a strongest survive type of school with an abundance of violence and bullying that is ALLOWED to go on. My daughter is an honors student. She is intelligent, beautiful, strong, smart, and fortunately she grew up the youngest of 5 and the only girl, so she is also very capable of defending herself. This is something you need to survive in Orange Park High School and if you don’t believe your child can defend themselves in street style fighting on a regular basis, or endure a ridiculous amount of regular and repeated at will style ridicule - more importantly do not feel that any child SHOULD have to physically defend themselves or emotionally heal from a day at school I would not recommend allowing your child to attend this school.

If you are white and athletic you will have a better chance of winning the lottery than gaining any further experience in your sport. The coaches are arrogant. If you think being consistently on the honor will make a difference, you are sadly mistaken, Teachers lose homework assignments, tests, and other papers then give the student a zero for the assignment the incompetent teacher lost. Doesn’t exactly encourage students to do their best.

Appalling to see students go around hallway shouting obscenities and blatantly disobeying dress code rules. Many students loiter hours after classes ends, most likely because they live out of zone in Duval and parents falsify addresses so they don't have to attend Westside (formerly Forrest), though OP ain't much better. Students and teachers vary. If you're in an advanced or honors class, you'd be OK, but if you're in regular classes, good luck. Some students are decent people, but a majority of them are disrespectful brats that don't want to learn. They blatantly disrespect teachers and harass classmates. When administrators come in to reprimand them and the students laugh at them. They get two stars because despite the lack of discipline, most teachers show that they care about students and try (though not always successfully) to teach them.

To be blunt, I hated this school. I felt in my years there that my education was not a priority for OPHS. They sure do care about the 'education' of their student athletes, however! I had a few amazing teachers at my time at OPHS. Most of my teachers really didn't care. My peers were absolutley rude as well. We built like 10 new building that aren't in use, but our classrooms have broken AC and or are falling apart. Classes don't have paper to print things on, but good to know we bought 2 plasma screen to replace the TVS in the cafeteria (that were in perfectly good, working condition). If I were a parent, I would find a different school for my child.