ECTOR COLLEGE PREP SUCCESS ACADEMY

As a well-populated middle school in ODESSA, Texas, ECTOR COLLEGE PREP SUCCESS ACADEMY teaches 1,272 students from grades 6 through 8, run under ECTOR COUNTY ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so ECTOR COLLEGE PREP SUCCESS ACADEMY sits 98% bigger than that benchmark.

ECTOR COUNTY ISD comprises 45 schools with combined enrollment of 34,336 students; ECTOR COLLEGE PREP SUCCESS ACADEMY is among them.

Looking at the student body, ECTOR COLLEGE PREP SUCCESS ACADEMY records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). Beyond that, the school lists 5% White. By comparison, Ector County as a whole is about 64% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting ECTOR COLLEGE PREP SUCCESS ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 85% of students at ECTOR COLLEGE PREP SUCCESS ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Ector County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, ECTOR COLLEGE PREP SUCCESS ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.6%, the actual is 42.7%, a residual of +6.0 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Ector County) records that median household income runs about $71,536, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Ector County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,123 students), ECTOR COLLEGE PREP SUCCESS ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

EL MAGNET AT ZAVALA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ECTOR COLLEGE PREP SUCCESS ACADEMY comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.4%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. ECTOR COLLEGE PREP SUCCESS ACADEMY's enrollment has edged down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 1,568 (now 1,272). Class-load math has grew: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 in 2025.

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