KEELEY EL

KEELEY EL is an elementary campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in ROWLETT, Texas, one of the schools within GARLAND ISD, instructing 582 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 76 schools in GARLAND ISD (53,173 students total), KEELEY EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, KEELEY EL shows that the largest single group is White at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 28% Hispanic, 21% Black, 8% multiracial, 8% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Dallas County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, KEELEY EL has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting KEELEY EL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 38% of students are eligible 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, KEELEY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.4%, the actual is 57.4%, a residual of +0.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. KEELEY EL is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

LIBERTY GROVE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KEELEY EL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.0%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KEELEY EL has fell 13%, going from 668 students in 2018 to 582 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 52% to 36% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.