AUSTIN MONTESSORI MAGNET

AUSTIN MONTESSORI MAGNET is a medium-sized K-5 school in ODESSA, Texas, run under ECTOR COUNTY ISD. The school instructs 550 students in grades pre-K through 6.

AUSTIN MONTESSORI MAGNET is one of 45 schools operated by ECTOR COUNTY ISD, a district that teaches 34,336 students overall.

Looking at the student body, AUSTIN MONTESSORI MAGNET shows that nearly all students (84%) are Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 11% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Ector County's rate of about 71%.

After controlling for student poverty, AUSTIN MONTESSORI MAGNET tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.2%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Ector County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,536, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ector County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,123 students), AUSTIN MONTESSORI MAGNET is one campus in the mix.

ODESSA H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), AUSTIN MONTESSORI MAGNET ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 54.0%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 22%: 449 students in 2018 compared to 550 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 76% to 84%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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