GALE POND ALAMO EL

GALE POND ALAMO EL operates as a low-enrollment elementary campus in ODESSA, Texas, run under ECTOR COUNTY ISD. Current enrollment sits at 352 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 32% below the state mean of about 519.

ECTOR COUNTY ISD runs 45 schools in total, collectively educating 34,336 students. GALE POND ALAMO EL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, GALE POND ALAMO EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 77% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 15% White, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 64% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, GALE POND ALAMO EL logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 66% of students at GALE POND ALAMO EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, GALE POND ALAMO EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.0%; this one delivers 57.8%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Ector County) logs that median household income runs about $71,536, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Ector County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,123 students), GALE POND ALAMO EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is GEORGE H W BUSH NEW TECH ODESSA, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GALE POND ALAMO EL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 16%: 418 students in 2018 compared to 352 in 2025.

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