GONZALES EL

GONZALES EL is a K-5 school of cozy scale in ODESSA, Texas, one of the schools within ECTOR COUNTY ISD, enrolling 424 students in grades pre-K through 5.

GONZALES EL is one of 45 schools operated by ECTOR COUNTY ISD, a district that teaches 34,336 students overall.

On the student-mix side, GONZALES EL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%. The remainder is composed of 19% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 64% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting GONZALES EL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ector County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GONZALES EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.8%, the actual is 26.1%, a residual of -12.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Ector County) logs that median household income runs about $71,536, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Ector County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,123 students), GONZALES EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is THE ODESSA Y LEARNING CENTER, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GONZALES EL. On composite proficiency, GONZALES EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.6%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. GONZALES EL's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 416 (now 424). White enrollment moved from 26% to 19% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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