ROSS EL

ROSS EL is an elementary school of moderately sized scale in ODESSA, Texas, overseen by ECTOR COUNTY ISD, educateing 512 students in grades pre-K through 5.

ECTOR COUNTY ISD comprises 45 schools with combined enrollment of 34,336 students; ROSS EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, ROSS EL shows that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 20% White, 6% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. Compared to Ector County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, ROSS EL has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROSS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.3%, the actual is 40.2%, a residual of -0.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Ector County put the typical household earns roughly $71,536 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ector County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,123 students), ROSS EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is GOLIAD EL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROSS EL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 26.6%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROSS EL has rose 31%, going from 391 students in 2018 to 512 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 52% to 67%.

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