Toler Elementary School

Size

Of the 44 elementary schools in Garland ISD, Toler Elementary School is the 37th largest, with 0.8% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2 miles away with a median enrollment of 490; Toler 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 kindergarten with 71 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 50, against an average of 61 per grade. This year grade 5 has 18% fewer students than kindergarten (58 against 71). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 50 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 50.1% here and 53.4% across Garland ISD. Black students are next, at 24%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

82.1% 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 27.25 full-time-equivalent teachers for 425 students, Toler Elementary School has 15.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 425 students would have about 28.7 teachers, so Toler Elementary School has 1.4 fewer.

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

Location

Toler 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 Couch Collegiate Prep Elementary School, 1.4 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 155 other elementary schools, 37 of them within 5 miles.

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