GOLIAD EL

GOLIAD EL is an elementary campus of mid-tier scale in ODESSA, Texas, run under ECTOR COUNTY ISD, instructing 565 students in grades K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, GOLIAD EL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 15% White, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Ector County's rate of about 71%.

With demographic context factored in, GOLIAD EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.8%; this one comes in at 20.0%, -14.8 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Ector County shows median household income runs about $71,536, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Ector County runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,123 students), of which GOLIAD EL is one.

The closest other public school is ROSS EL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GOLIAD EL at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 31.2%.

GOLIAD EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 18%: 478 students in 2018 compared to 565 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

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