ODOM EL

ODOM EL is an intimate primary school in HOUSTON, Texas, run under ALDINE ISD. The school hosts 322 students in grades 1 through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ODOM EL sits 38% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 76 schools in ALDINE ISD (56,419 students total), ODOM EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, ODOM EL logs that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 2% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, ODOM EL logs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, ODOM EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.6%; this one delivers 34.2%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which ODOM EL is one.

THOMPSON EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ODOM EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 34.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. ODOM EL's enrollment has declined 57% since 2018, when it stood at 749 (now 322). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.