Vernal Lister Elementary School

Size

Of the 44 elementary schools in Garland ISD, Vernal Lister Elementary School is the 10th largest, with 1.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.8 miles away and have a median of 600 students, so Vernal Lister 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 2 with 100 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 62, against an average of 84 per grade. This year grade 5 has 26% fewer students than kindergarten (71 against 96). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 62 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 35.2% of enrollment, a lower share than across Garland ISD (53.4%). Asian students are next, at 30.7%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

79.4% of students qualify 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

Vernal Lister Elementary School has 39.61 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 586 students would have about 39.6 teachers, so Vernal Lister Elementary School has about as many as that.

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 Harmony Science Academy - Garland, 1 miles away in Harmony Public Schools - North Texas. There are 40 elementary schools within 5 miles and 148 within 10 miles.

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