EL MAGNET AT ZAVALA

Located at 1201 CLIFFORD ST, in ODESSA, Texas, EL MAGNET AT ZAVALA is an average-sized elementary school that enrolls 726 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by ECTOR COUNTY ISD. That puts it 40% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Within ECTOR COUNTY ISD, which oversees 45 schools and 34,336 students, EL MAGNET AT ZAVALA is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, EL MAGNET AT ZAVALA lists that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 3% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Ector County as a whole is about 64% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, EL MAGNET AT ZAVALA lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 90% of students at EL MAGNET AT ZAVALA qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Ector County's rate of about 71%.

With demographic context factored in, EL MAGNET AT ZAVALA performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.3%, the actual is 30.5%, a residual of -4.8 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Ector County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,536 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. EL MAGNET AT ZAVALA is one of 56 public schools in Ector County (combined enrollment of about 38,123 students).

The closest other public school is ECTOR COLLEGE PREP SUCCESS ACADEMY, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, EL MAGNET AT ZAVALA comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.7%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 19%: 611 students in 2018 compared to 726 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 86% to 93%. Class-load math has widened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 21.3:1 in 2025.

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