George Washington Carver Elementary School

Size

Of the 44 elementary schools in Garland ISD, George Washington Carver Elementary School is the 8th largest, with 1.3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 505; George Washington Carver 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 2 with 103 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 75, against an average of 91 per grade. This year grade 5 has 26% more students than kindergarten (96 against 76). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 75 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 66.7% here and 53.4% across Garland ISD. Black students are next, at 15.2%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

83.6% of its students are eligible 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

With 37.79 full-time-equivalent teachers for 640 students, George Washington Carver Elementary School has 16.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 640 students would have about 43.2 teachers, so George Washington Carver Elementary School 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

George Washington Carver Elementary School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Handley STEM Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 157 other elementary schools, 43 of them within 5 miles.

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