Blanton Elementary School

Size

Blanton Elementary School is the 19th largest of Ector County ISD's 27 elementary schools; its 510 students are 1.5% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.4 miles away and have a median of 494 students, so Blanton Elementary School is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 3 with 84 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 52, against an average of 73 per grade. This year grade 5 has 13% more students than kindergarten (78 against 69). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 52 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 66.7% of enrollment, a lower share than across Ector County ISD (81.4%). White students are next, at 18.2%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

80.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 75.5% across Ector County ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Blanton Elementary School has 25.04 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 20.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 510 students would have about 34.5 teachers, so Blanton Elementary School has 9.5 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Harmony Science Academy - Odessa, 1 miles away in Harmony Public Schools - West Texas. There are 23 elementary schools within 5 miles and 26 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.