EL MAGNET AT TRAVIS

EL MAGNET AT TRAVIS is one of the close-knit elementary schools in ODESSA, Texas, part of ECTOR COUNTY ISD, with 292 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 44% below typical.

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

On the student-mix side, EL MAGNET AT TRAVIS reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%); the rest looks like 5% Black, 4% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, EL MAGNET AT TRAVIS has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Ector County (around 71%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, EL MAGNET AT TRAVIS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.9%, the actual is 29.3%, a residual of -5.5 points.

In the area at large, Ector County reports that 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%. EL MAGNET AT TRAVIS is one of 56 public schools in Ector County (combined enrollment of about 38,123 students).

ECTOR COLLEGE PREP SUCCESS ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EL MAGNET AT TRAVIS. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EL MAGNET AT TRAVIS ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 43.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at EL MAGNET AT TRAVIS has fell 12%, going from 333 students in 2018 to 292 in 2024. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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