COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL

COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of the high-enrollment all-grades campuss in ODESSA, Texas, run under COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, with 1,558 students on its rolls from grades K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 485 students per school, that is 221% above typical.

COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is the operating authority for COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL logs that 60% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 37% Hispanic. By comparison, Ector County as a whole is about 48% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL has 91 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.7:1 average. About 3% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Ector County (around 71%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 72.7%; COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL posts 50.4%, -22.3 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Ector County shows median household income runs about $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. COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 56 public schools in Ector County (combined enrollment of about 38,123 students).

Nearest neighbor: L B JOHNSON EL, around 1.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 40.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. COMPASS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 52%: 1,027 students in 2018 compared to 1,558 in 2025.

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