Robert B Sewell Elementary School

Size

Robert B Sewell Elementary School is the 4th largest of Garland ISD's 44 elementary schools; its 709 students are 1.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.2 miles away and have a median of 628 students, so Robert B Sewell 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 3 with 135 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 45, against an average of 101 per grade. This year grade 5 has 29% more students than kindergarten (115 against 89). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 45 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 28.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across Garland ISD (13.8%). Hispanic students are next, at 24.5%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

49.1% 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

Robert B Sewell Elementary School has 41.02 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 709 students would have about 47.9 teachers, so Robert B Sewell Elementary School has 6.9 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 John W Armstrong Elementary School, 1.3 miles away in the same district. There are 34 elementary schools within 5 miles and 126 within 10 miles.

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