The Odessa Y Learning Center

Families in ODESSA, Texas, are served by The Odessa Y Learning Center, a small elementary school. Enrolled students number 209 students, in pre-K. Enrollment is 60% lower than the average for elementary schools in Texas, which is about 519.

Enrollment across the 45 schools in ECTOR COUNTY ISD totals 34,336 students.

Federal enrollment data show The Odessa Y Learning Center is 83% Hispanic. It is also 9% White and 7% Black. Ector County's residents are about 64% Hispanic, 20 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 29% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

At The Odessa Y Learning Center, 9 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 23.1:1. On average, elementary schools in Texas have 15.1:1, compared with 23.1:1 here. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 65% of enrollment.

County data help place the school in context: in Ector County, the median household income is $71,536, about 18% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 14% of residents are in poverty. In all, Ector County has 56 public schools and roughly 38,123 students.

Gonzales Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles away. The five-mile area around The Odessa Y Learning Center holds at least 8 other public schools.

The school's locale code, City: Mid-size, means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000. The Odessa Y Learning Center operates as a charter school, which is publicly funded and run under a charter.

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