Weaver Elementary School

Size

Of the 44 elementary schools in Garland ISD, Weaver Elementary School is the 32nd largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 556; Weaver 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 73 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 55, against an average of 66 per grade. This year grade 5 has 12% fewer students than kindergarten (59 against 67). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 55 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 71.7% here and 53.4% across Garland ISD. Black students are next, at 12.6%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

85.2% 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 30.96 full-time-equivalent teachers for 460 students, Weaver Elementary School has 14.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 460 students would have about 31.1 teachers, so Weaver 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

Weaver 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 Shorehaven Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 154 other elementary schools, 46 of them within 5 miles.

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