Beaver Technology Center

Size

Beaver Technology Center is the 15th largest of Garland ISD's 44 elementary schools; its 562 students are 1.1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 0.9 miles away and have a median of 511 students, so Beaver Technology Center 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 5 with 114 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 1, against an average of 80 per grade. This year grade 5 has 75% more students than kindergarten (114 against 65). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 1 child in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 46.3% of enrollment, a lower share than across Garland ISD (53.4%). Asian students are next, at 22.4%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

64.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 72.1% across Garland 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

Beaver Technology Center has 32.61 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 562 students would have about 38 teachers, so Beaver Technology Center has 5.4 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Davis Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in the same district. There are 55 elementary schools within 5 miles and 179 within 10 miles.

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