BURLESON EL

As a small primary school in ODESSA, Texas, BURLESON EL enrolls 381 students from grades K through 5, run under ECTOR COUNTY ISD. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, BURLESON EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). Beyond that, the school reports 7% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 64% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BURLESON EL has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.7:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Ector County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BURLESON EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 37.9%; BURLESON EL posts 17.1%, -20.8 points below that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Ector County) records that the typical household earns roughly $71,536 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Ector County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,123 students), BURLESON EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SAM HOUSTON EL, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BURLESON EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 49.4%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at BURLESON EL has decreased 11%, going from 428 students in 2018 to 381 in 2024.

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