O HENRY EL

Located at 4100 TYNES DR, in GARLAND, Texas, O HENRY EL is a medium-sized elementary-level community that instructs 464 students (grades pre-K through 6), overseen by RICHARDSON ISD.

Within RICHARDSON ISD, which oversees 55 schools and 38,526 students, O HENRY EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, O HENRY EL records that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 20% Asian, 9% Black, 6% White. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

After controlling for student poverty, O HENRY EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.3%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household earnings sit near $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), O HENRY EL is one campus in the mix.

BRADFIELD EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, O HENRY EL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 44.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 453 students in 2018 compared to 464 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 56% to 64% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

On allk12, members of the O HENRY EL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.