DAVIS EL

DAVIS EL is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in GARLAND, Texas, part of GARLAND ISD, instructing 478 students in grades pre-K through 5.

GARLAND ISD runs 76 schools in total, collectively educating 53,173 students. DAVIS EL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, DAVIS EL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%. Beyond that, the school logs 15% Asian, 14% Black, 7% White. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DAVIS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.6%, the actual is 43.6%, a residual of +9.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. DAVIS EL is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

Nearest neighbor: JACKSON TECHNOLOGY CENTER, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DAVIS EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 59.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DAVIS EL has fell 19%, going from 589 students in 2018 to 478 in 2025.

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