BLANTON EL

BLANTON EL, a medium-sized elementary school in ODESSA, Texas, overseen by ECTOR COUNTY ISD, serves 510 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

ECTOR COUNTY ISD comprises 45 schools with combined enrollment of 34,336 students; BLANTON EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BLANTON EL reports that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 18% White, 9% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. Compared to Ector County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Ector County (around 71%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BLANTON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.9%, the actual is 36.4%, a residual of -2.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Ector County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,536 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Ector County runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,123 students), of which BLANTON EL is one.

The closest other public school is NIMITZ MIDDLE, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BLANTON EL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.2%.

BLANTON EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BLANTON EL has edged up 20%, going from 425 students in 2018 to 510 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 48% to 67% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for BLANTON EL typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.