NORTHLAKE EL

NORTHLAKE EL, a medium-sized elementary-level community in GARLAND, Texas, operated by GARLAND ISD, works with 526 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

NORTHLAKE EL is one of 76 schools operated by GARLAND ISD, a district that instructs 53,173 students overall.

On demographics, NORTHLAKE EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 10% White, 7% Black, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NORTHLAKE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.5%, the actual is 34.4%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Dallas County put the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), NORTHLAKE EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is WEAVER EL, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NORTHLAKE EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. NORTHLAKE EL's enrollment has ticked down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 570 (now 526). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 64% to 76% over that span.

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