The school mascot (dating back to the mid-1920s) is the porcupine (which is not native to the area).
The Term POJO comes from a meeting in Spring 1983, with new head football coach, Lucky Gamble, and a small group of senior and junior football players.
In that meeting the group decided they needed a new culture to go along with the new coach and they decided to adopt POJO, a derivative of Odessa Permian's MOJO as a spirit word for the team.
[1] In September 2012 the board of the district voted to allow an administrator giving a school punishment paddling of a student to be of the opposite sex of the student; the school district said this is because of a lack of female administrators.
[3] In 2012 the policy was changed; parents have to opt into corporal punishment and they may choose which gender administrator may deliver it.