Summary:
Odessa School District serves 224 students in the Odessa area across two schools covering prekindergarten through grade 12: P C Jantz Elementary for PK–6 and Odessa High School for grades 7–12. There is no separate middle school, so students in grades 7 and 8 attend the high school. The district’s small size can make year-to-year test results fluctuate noticeably because each student represents a larger share of the total.
P C Jantz Elementary currently has the stronger overall academic results in English language arts and math. Its 2025–2026 proficiency rates were 47.06% in ELA and 45.59% in math, compared with 42.22% and 37.78% at Odessa High School. Elementary math improved by nearly 10 percentage points from the prior year, and science rose by more than 12 points. However, parents should note the uneven upper-elementary math results: 50% of fourth graders were proficient, compared with 28.57% in fifth grade and 26.32% in sixth grade. ELA remains an area for improvement, with all reported elementary grades below state averages.
Odessa High School is the stronger school in science, with 50% proficiency compared with 42.86% at P C Jantz Elementary. Seventh-grade ELA and eighth-grade math also exceeded state results, but eighth-grade ELA was a significant weakness at 26.67%. High school science declined from a very strong 70.37% the previous year to 50%, while ELA fell nearly nine points. The high school has somewhat higher spending per student and a slightly lower student-teacher ratio, but performance varies by subject. Families should view the district as having small classes and mixed academic strengths, with the clearest priorities being ELA improvement, fifth- and sixth-grade math support, and monitoring high school science trends. Some grade-level results were suppressed and are unknown, not zero.
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