CENTERVILLE EL

CENTERVILLE EL, a small primary school in GARLAND, Texas, run under GARLAND ISD, instructs 278 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so CENTERVILLE EL sits 46% leaner than that benchmark.

GARLAND ISD comprises 76 schools with combined enrollment of 53,173 students; CENTERVILLE EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, CENTERVILLE EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%); the rest looks like 8% Black, 6% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the resource side, CENTERVILLE EL records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

After controlling for student poverty, CENTERVILLE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.5%, the actual is 26.8%, a residual of -7.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Dallas County) logs that median household earnings sit near $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), CENTERVILLE EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is HILLSIDE ACAD FOR EXCEL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CENTERVILLE EL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.8%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. CENTERVILLE EL's enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 302 (now 278). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 74% to 82% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the CENTERVILLE EL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.