GARDEN RIDGE EL

GARDEN RIDGE EL, a medium-sized primary school in GARDEN RIDGE, Texas, part of COMAL ISD, enrolls 475 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

COMAL ISD comprises 37 schools with combined enrollment of 29,839 students; GARDEN RIDGE EL is among them.

Demographically, GARDEN RIDGE EL reports that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 28% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, Comal County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Comal County's rate of about 32%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GARDEN RIDGE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.8%, the actual is 71.2%, a residual of +5.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Comal County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $101,889 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Comal County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,653 students), of which GARDEN RIDGE EL is one.

DAVENPORT H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GARDEN RIDGE EL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 49.6%.

GARDEN RIDGE EL operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 40%: 790 students in 2018 compared to 475 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.