EL MAGNET AT MILAM EL

As a moderately sized primary school in ODESSA, Texas, EL MAGNET AT MILAM EL enrolls 583 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of ECTOR COUNTY ISD.

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

On demographics, EL MAGNET AT MILAM EL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). Beyond that, the school lists 7% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

On the resource side, On paper, EL MAGNET AT MILAM EL has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting EL MAGNET AT MILAM EL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Ector County's rate of about 71%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), EL MAGNET AT MILAM EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.7%, the actual is 42.2%, a residual of -4.5 points.

In the broader community, census data for Ector County shows median household income runs about $71,536, 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), EL MAGNET AT MILAM EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: EL MAGNET AT BLACKSHEAR, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, EL MAGNET AT MILAM EL comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.5%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EL MAGNET AT MILAM EL has edged up 13%, going from 517 students in 2018 to 583 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 82% to 91% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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