Larson Elementary School

Size

Larson Elementary School is the 42nd largest of Arlington ISD's 52 elementary schools; its 443 students are 0.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 614; Larson Elementary School is smaller 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 78 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 45, against an average of 55 per grade. This year grade 6 has 11% fewer students than kindergarten (57 against 64). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 49 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 67.7% here and 25% across Arlington ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 16.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

83.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 75.1% across Arlington 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 37.51 full-time-equivalent teachers for 443 students, Larson Elementary School has 11.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 443 students would have about 29.9 teachers, so Larson Elementary School has 7.6 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Larson 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 Dwight D Eisenhower Elementary School, 1.3 miles away in Grand Prairie ISD. Within 10 miles there are 153 other elementary schools, 40 of them within 5 miles.

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