ODESSA H S

As a high-enrollment secondary school in ODESSA, Texas, ODESSA H S teaches 3,814 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by ECTOR COUNTY ISD. That puts it 379% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

Across the 45 schools in ECTOR COUNTY ISD (34,336 students total), ODESSA H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, ODESSA H S logs that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 7% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

Looking at school resources, ODESSA H S records 214 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ector County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ODESSA H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.1%, the actual is 28.3%, a residual of -9.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Ector County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,536 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Ector County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,123 students), ODESSA H S is one campus in the mix.

AUSTIN MONTESSORI MAGNET is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ODESSA H S. On composite proficiency, ODESSA H S comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 53.6%.

ODESSA H S operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. ODESSA H S's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 3,807 (now 3,814). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 85% to 90% over that span.

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