Couch Collegiate Prep Elementary School

Size

Of the 44 elementary schools in Garland ISD, Couch Collegiate Prep Elementary School is the 23rd largest, with 1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.4 miles away and have a median of 491 students, so Couch Collegiate Prep Elementary School 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 pre-K with 81 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 60, against an average of 75 per grade. This year grade 5 has 35% more students than kindergarten (81 against 60). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 81 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 43.1% of enrollment, a lower share than across Garland ISD (53.4%). Black students are next, at 33.2%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

78.1% 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

Couch Collegiate Prep Elementary School has 33.22 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 524 students would have about 35.4 teachers, so Couch Collegiate Prep Elementary School has 2.2 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 Toler Elementary School, 1.4 miles away in the same district. There are 33 elementary schools within 5 miles and 143 within 10 miles.

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