ODYSSEY ACADEMY - TEXAS CITY

Located at 10000 EMMETT F LOWRY EXPWY STE 1300, in TEXAS CITY, Texas, ODYSSEY ACADEMY - TEXAS CITY is a medium-sized primary school that instructs 558 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by ODYSSEY ACADEMY INC.

ODYSSEY ACADEMY INC comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,681 students; ODYSSEY ACADEMY - TEXAS CITY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ODYSSEY ACADEMY - TEXAS CITY logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 36% Black, 16% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Galveston County as a whole is about 26% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Galveston County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, ODYSSEY ACADEMY - TEXAS CITY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 40.6%; this one comes in at 26.6%, -14.0 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for Galveston County shows median household earnings sit near $86,105, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Galveston County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,767 students), ODYSSEY ACADEMY - TEXAS CITY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is DICKINSON J H, roughly 1.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ODYSSEY ACADEMY - TEXAS CITY comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. ODYSSEY ACADEMY - TEXAS CITY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. ODYSSEY ACADEMY - TEXAS CITY's enrollment has increased 115% since 2018, when it stood at 259 (now 558). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 53% to 16%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.

On the community side, members of the ODYSSEY ACADEMY - TEXAS CITY community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.