On March 5th our Junior High Symphonic band performed for the 2025 UIL Concert and Sight Reading Evaluation. This group of students is predominantly 7th graders who are only in their 2nd year of playing an instrument! The directors are very proud to announce that the band earned an Excellent Division for Concert and an Excellent Division in Sight Reading! These students have put in a ton of work in a short amount of time and represented Orangefield very well!!!
Please congratulate these students when you see them and we look forward to our next performance on May 6th with our Spring Concert!
Saturday, March 1st, OJH Student Council had a small group participate in the 30th Annual Shangri-La Community Trash-Off. They cleaned up about a mile's worth of road in downtown Orange, filling eight bags of trash.
This weeked the Orangefield Junior High Jr. Sophisticats Drill Team traveled to Galveston to perform at their first drill team competition with American Dance and Drill Team in the Moody Gardens Convention Center. The team took two dances and received Division 1 high ratings for both their Pom and Novelty routines. The team's captain, Payton Pietz, also competed with a solo in the Jr. High division and received Top Jr. High Soloist. They are looking forward to continuing to grow their team and will travel again next year for more competitions.
Attention OJH Parents/Guardians: Reminder that next week will be tryout week for the OJH Jr. Sophisticats Drill Team. Practices will be Monday-Wednesday in the OJH Gym from 4-5:30. Mock Tryouts will be Thursday in the OJH Gym starting at 4:00. Tryouts will be Friday, March 7, during the school day in the OJH Gym.
All practices are mandatory in order to tryout, appropriate workout attire is required for each practice, must have a physical on file in order to tryout and all practices and tryouts are closed to the public.
A short parent meeting will be held on Monday in the OJH cafeteria after the first practice about team information and to answer any questions.
Congratulations to our 2025-2026 OJH Cheerleaders!
HUGE thanks to the Orangefield ISD Education Foundation! 🤩 They've awarded over $17,000 in grants to Orangefield Junior High, funding 5 amazing projects for our students! We're so grateful for their support!
OJH Student Council attended the TASC District 17 Spring Convention on Wednesday, February 26th, held at Ford Park. The event focuses on student empowerment, leadership skills, and community involvement. The twenty-five members listened to keynote speaker Jamar Root, known for inspiring people to find their passion and achieve success within it. In addition, they learned about charities and project ideas to help the community. A handful of our members presented their own table talks over projects completed this school year.
OJH Student Council received state recognition from TASC in four different categories for their hard work this school year! The four awards are for Community Service; Pride and Patriotism; Energy and Environment; and Drugs, Alcohol, Safety, and Health.
Last night the Orangefield Junior High Concert and Symphonic band held a preview for their UIL Concert and Sight Reading Evaluation. In this concert, 4 judges were brought in to give ratings to the students and valuable comments. The Concert band performed 2 UIL Pieces. The Symphonic band performed their 3 UIL pieces as well as a full sight reading procedure where they had 7 minutes to learn a piece of music they had never seen before and perform it in front of their family and friends. Everyone performed so well last night and the directors are very proud of their accomplishments!
Please come support the Symphonic band at Silsbee High School on March 5th, at 11:30am when they perform for UIL Concert and Sight Reading Evaluation!
OJH Boys Track Results
OJH Girls Track Results 2/24/25:
We had wonderful efforts shown by our Bobcats to secure 1st place for both grades!
Attention OJH Parents and Guardians: Reminder that our campus will not accept deliveries of flowers, chocolates, gifts, etc. This includes game days or for events such as cheer/dance tryouts or awards ceremonies. We appreciate your understanding as we work to create a focused and fun learning environment!
OJH 8th grader Breckin McKinley won a Best of Show award for his artwork submitted to the Houston Livestock and Rodeo Art Contest. The drawing will be displayed at the Rodeo through the duration of the event.
OJH Student Council and NJHS hosted the Souper Bowl of Caring Food Drive, using the excitement of the Super Bowl to help tackle hunger. Classes competed to see which could bring the most food. A total of 518 nonperishables were donated to the Bridge City/Orangefield Ministerial Alliance. Pictured are officers of OJH StuCo and NJHS with food being presented to Ministerial Alliance members.
Monday was Bus Driver Appreciation Day! OJH Student Council made gift bags for our district bus drivers to show how much they are loved!
2025-2026 Freshman Parent Meeting
Attention OJH Parents/Guardians: Due to maintenance being conducted on campus, there will be no D&D Club this evening and no We Believers in the morning.
OJH Cheer Applicants : Final reminder that all JUNIOR HIGH cheer applications are due today, February 20th at 3:50 PM. Students must sign the sign up sheet and have a completed application on file. No exceptions will be made. Good luck to all of our applicants!
OJH Parents and Guardians: We will have interim testing this week for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students. Please make sure your students charge their Chromebooks and bring them everyday this week.
Let's make it a great week Bobcats!
OJH Spring picture day is Wednesday, February 26!
Congratulations to the Orangefield Junior High One Act Play Troupe on their final performance of "This Is A Text"! In January, our group earned third place at the regional UIL competition, along with 6 individual medals. This week, they performed one last time for our community and gave an outstanding show!
