Norma Dorsey Elementary School

Size

Of the 44 elementary schools in Garland ISD, Norma Dorsey Elementary School is the 13th largest, with 1.1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 491; Norma Dorsey 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 110 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 22, against an average of 82 per grade. This year grade 5 has 22% more students than kindergarten (93 against 76). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 22 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 45.2% here and 53.4% across Garland ISD. White students are next, at 21.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

56.7% 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. 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

With 35.52 full-time-equivalent teachers for 571 students, Norma Dorsey Elementary School has 16.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 571 students would have about 38.6 teachers, so Norma Dorsey Elementary School has 3.1 fewer.

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

Location

Norma Dorsey 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 Back Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 139 other elementary schools, 39 of them within 5 miles.

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