BIG SPRINGS EL

BIG SPRINGS EL, a small K-5 school in GARLAND, Texas, part of RICHARDSON ISD, teaches 403 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so BIG SPRINGS EL sits 22% smaller than that benchmark.

RICHARDSON ISD runs 55 schools in total, collectively educating 38,526 students. BIG SPRINGS EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, BIG SPRINGS EL reports that 36% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 27% Hispanic, 19% Black, 12% Asian, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, BIG SPRINGS EL logs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting BIG SPRINGS EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 42% of students at BIG SPRINGS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BIG SPRINGS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.5%, the actual is 52.3%, a residual of -3.2 points.

Across the wider county, Dallas County reports that median household income runs about $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), BIG SPRINGS EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is YALE EL, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BIG SPRINGS EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 45.6%.

BIG SPRINGS EL operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 24%: 324 students in 2018 compared to 403 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked up from 11% to 19%. Class-load math has fell: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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