Classical Center at Vial Elementary School

Size

Classical Center at Vial Elementary School is the 12th largest of Garland ISD's 44 elementary schools; its 572 students are 1.1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.5 miles away and have a median of 444 students, so Classical Center at Vial Elementary School is larger than most of them.

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 4 with 104 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 74, against an average of 95 per grade. This year grade 5 has 36% more students than kindergarten (101 against 74). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 57.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across Garland ISD (53.4%). Black students are next, at 18.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

54% 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

Classical Center at Vial Elementary School has 36.18 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 572 students would have about 38.6 teachers, so Classical Center at Vial Elementary School has 2.4 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 Shugart Elementary School, 1 miles away in the same district. There are 46 elementary schools within 5 miles and 171 within 10 miles.

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