Nita Pearson Elementary School

Size

Of the 44 elementary schools in Garland ISD, Nita Pearson Elementary School is the 33rd largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 493; Nita Pearson 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 4 with 72 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 52, against an average of 65 per grade. This year grade 5 has 17% more students than kindergarten (70 against 60). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 52 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 47.5% here and 17.6% across Garland ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 29.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

75.2% 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 27.31 full-time-equivalent teachers for 455 students, Nita Pearson Elementary School has 16.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 455 students would have about 30.7 teachers, so Nita Pearson Elementary School has 3.4 fewer.

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

Location

Nita Pearson 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 Education Center International Academy 2, 0.6 miles away in Education Center International Academy. Within 10 miles there are 106 other elementary schools, 19 of them within 5 miles.

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