O'DELL EL

O'DELL EL is one of the moderately sized K-5 schools in CELINA, Texas, overseen by CELINA ISD, with 770 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 48% bigger than typical.

O'DELL EL is one of 8 schools operated by CELINA ISD, a district that educates 5,324 students overall.

Looking at the student body, O'DELL EL shows that the largest single group is White at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 34% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 54% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, O'DELL EL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting O'DELL EL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Collin County (around 30%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, O'DELL EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 68.4%; O'DELL EL posts 53.8%, -14.6 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Collin County) shows that median household income runs about $121,600, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which O'DELL EL is one.

LILYANA EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around O'DELL EL. On composite proficiency, O'DELL EL comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 64.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at O'DELL EL has edged up 92%, going from 401 students in 2018 to 770 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 73% to 37%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

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