B H FREEMAN AT GOLDEN MEADOWS EL

B H FREEMAN AT GOLDEN MEADOWS EL is an elementary-level community of middle-of-the-pack scale in GARLAND, Texas, operated by GARLAND ISD, caters to 643 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 24% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

B H FREEMAN AT GOLDEN MEADOWS EL is one of 76 schools operated by GARLAND ISD, a district that caters to 53,173 students overall.

On demographics, B H FREEMAN AT GOLDEN MEADOWS EL logs that 80% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 9% Black, 7% White, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, B H FREEMAN AT GOLDEN MEADOWS EL has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 92% of students at B H FREEMAN AT GOLDEN MEADOWS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), B H FREEMAN AT GOLDEN MEADOWS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.8%, the actual is 36.4%, a residual of +2.6 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household income runs about $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), B H FREEMAN AT GOLDEN MEADOWS EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BUSSEY MIDDLE, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around B H FREEMAN AT GOLDEN MEADOWS EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts B H FREEMAN AT GOLDEN MEADOWS EL at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 37.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 15%: 561 students in 2018 compared to 643 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 71% to 80% over that span.

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