John W Armstrong Elementary School

Size

Of the 44 elementary schools in Garland ISD, John W Armstrong Elementary School is the 2nd largest, with 1.4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.9 miles away and have a median of 690 students, so John W Armstrong 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 grade 5 with 136 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 13, against an average of 103 per grade. This year grade 5 has 20% more students than kindergarten (136 against 113). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 13 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 33.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across Garland ISD (13.8%). Hispanic students are next, at 23.9%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

41.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 72.1% across Garland ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

John W Armstrong Elementary School has 40.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 724 students would have about 48.9 teachers, so John W Armstrong Elementary School has 8.1 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 Robert B Sewell Elementary School, 1.3 miles away in the same district. There are 32 elementary schools within 5 miles and 135 within 10 miles.

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