BONHAM MIDDLE

BONHAM MIDDLE operates as a medium-sized junior high in ODESSA, Texas, operated by ECTOR COUNTY ISD. Current enrollment sits at 835 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 30% bigger than typical.

Across the 45 schools in ECTOR COUNTY ISD (34,336 students total), BONHAM MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, BONHAM MIDDLE records that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 10% White, 5% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 84% of students at BONHAM MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Ector County (around 71%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, BONHAM MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.3%, the actual is 30.5%, a residual of -6.7 points.

Around the school, census data for Ector County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,536 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BONHAM MIDDLE is one of 56 public schools in Ector County (combined enrollment of about 38,123 students).

EL MAGNET AT REAGAN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BONHAM MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, BONHAM MIDDLE comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

BONHAM MIDDLE operates from a high-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 899 students in 2018 compared to 835 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 75% to 83% across the same window.

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