This week will be a four-day week for students. Mr. Rash and Mr. Williams are out Wednesday through Friday, attending the All-State Band/TMEA Conventions in San Antonio with our All-State Trumpet player, Benjamin Castaneda. If you would like to come up and support him, he’ll perform at 9am in the Lila Cochrell Auditorium at the San Antonio Convention Center. (I

This week we have a normal full week of school, and our last week without events for a while. We encourage students to check with their teachers on their grades this week, as the end of the six weeks is approaching! We have begun color guard practices and will hold tryouts on March 2nd. Practices are being held after school

January closes for us this week with a light week for the bands. We will have high school band rehearsals from 6 pm to 8 pm on Thursday night. Also, from 4 pm-5:15 pm, we will have our jazz rehearsal. In case you haven’t seen it elsewhere, the district is delayed for school tomorrow (Monday) by 2 hours as of

This week we wish all of our students involved in Stock Show the best of luck! It’s a light week for us with the bands still, as we continue our preparations for UIL and upcoming concerts. We will have high school band rehearsals from 6 pm to 8 pm on Thursday night. Also, from 4 pm-5:15 pm, we will have

We begin this week by congratulating senior trumpet player Benjamin Castañeda on earning a spot in the All-State Band on Saturday! This is the first time in school history we’ve had a trumpet player make the All-State Band! Ben will travel to San Antonio from February 11-14th for the All-State Clinic/Concert that is part of the Texas Music Educators Association Convention. 

Happy New Year!!! Welcome back to all of our students. We hope everyone had a great break! We have a busy spring ahead, with our first event right off the bat for our three students who have advanced to Area Auditions this coming Saturday. They’ll need to be at the school by 7:30 am to travel to Calallen HS for

Welcome to a final packed week for us of 2025 with the Odem Bands! First up is the Odem JH Bands Winter Concert on Tuesday evening, beginning at 6:30 pm. Please see the information below on call times for students, and help them ensure they have the required concert attire. The Odem HS Band Winter Concert will be on Thursday

Welcome back from the break! We hope everyone had a chance to rest up before these next few weeks ramp back up! We’ll start this week on Tuesday with our monthly Booster Meeting in the HS Cafetorium at 6 pm. Please consider joining us for that, as we look towards needing additional volunteers in the future!  Saturday, we will be

We want to begin by congratulating the 14 Odem JH Band Students who successfully made the All-Region Bands on Saturday! Please see the region results section below to see the full list of names, but we would like to especially congratulate Shane Gehris on F Horn, and Constancio Bello on Euphonium for earning the 1st Chair in their sections! This was