WILSON & YOUNG MEDAL OF HONOR MIDDLE

As a large junior high in ODESSA, Texas, WILSON & YOUNG MEDAL OF HONOR MIDDLE serves 1,227 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within ECTOR COUNTY ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so WILSON & YOUNG MEDAL OF HONOR MIDDLE sits 91% bigger than that benchmark.

ECTOR COUNTY ISD comprises 45 schools with combined enrollment of 34,336 students; WILSON & YOUNG MEDAL OF HONOR MIDDLE is among them.

On the student-mix side, WILSON & YOUNG MEDAL OF HONOR MIDDLE shows that 75% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 17% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, WILSON & YOUNG MEDAL OF HONOR MIDDLE has 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 70% of students at WILSON & YOUNG MEDAL OF HONOR MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WILSON & YOUNG MEDAL OF HONOR MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.6%.

Across the wider county, census data for Ector County shows median household earnings sit near $71,536, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Ector County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,123 students), WILSON & YOUNG MEDAL OF HONOR MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

SAM HOUSTON EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WILSON & YOUNG MEDAL OF HONOR MIDDLE comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.6%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 28%: 961 students in 2018 compared to 1,227 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 32% to 17%. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 in 2025.

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