JOHANNA ODONNELL INT
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 27 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 28 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JOHANNA ODONNELL INT
As an intimate primary school in FABENS, Texas, JOHANNA ODONNELL INT enrolls 434 students from grades 3 through 5, overseen by FABENS ISD.
FABENS ISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,865 students; JOHANNA ODONNELL INT is among them.
Demographically, JOHANNA ODONNELL INT records that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 83% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, JOHANNA ODONNELL INT reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, JOHANNA ODONNELL INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.1%, the actual is 39.6%, a residual of +5.5 points.
Around the school, El Paso County reports that the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across El Paso County's 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), JOHANNA ODONNELL INT is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is FABENS H S, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, JOHANNA ODONNELL INT comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.1%.
JOHANNA ODONNELL INT operates from a small-town location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 22%: 357 students in 2018 compared to 434 in 2025.
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