LARSON EL

As a reasonably sized K-5 school in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, LARSON EL serves 443 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of ARLINGTON ISD.

LARSON EL is one of 75 schools operated by ARLINGTON ISD, a district that educates 53,394 students overall.

Looking at the student body, LARSON EL reports that the largest single group is Black, at 68% of enrollment; the rest reads as 17% Hispanic, 7% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 18% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, LARSON EL shows 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting LARSON EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 84% of students at LARSON EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LARSON EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 37.9%; this one comes in at 19.5%, -18.5 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for Tarrant County shows median household income runs about $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), LARSON EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DWIGHT D EISENHOWER EL, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LARSON EL. On composite proficiency, LARSON EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 32.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 21%: 558 students in 2018 compared to 443 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share rose from 52% to 68%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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