Walnut Glen Academy for Excel

Size

Of the 44 elementary schools in Garland ISD, Walnut Glen Academy for Excel is the 41st largest, with 0.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 552; Walnut Glen Academy for Excel is smaller than most of them.

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 5 with 78 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 50, against an average of 63 per grade. This year grade 5 has 56% more students than kindergarten (78 against 50). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 41% here and 53.4% across Garland ISD. Asian students are next, at 22.3%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

59.6% 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 26.79 full-time-equivalent teachers for 376 students, Walnut Glen Academy for Excel has 14 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 376 students would have about 25.4 teachers, so Walnut Glen Academy for Excel has 1.4 more.

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

Location

Walnut Glen Academy for Excel 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 Beaver Technology Center, 0.6 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 179 other elementary schools, 56 of them within 5 miles.

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