SELLERS MIDDLE

As a medium-sized middle school in GARLAND, Texas, SELLERS MIDDLE caters to 852 students from grades 6 through 8, part of GARLAND ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so SELLERS MIDDLE sits 33% bigger than that benchmark.

Within GARLAND ISD, which oversees 76 schools and 53,173 students, SELLERS MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Demographically, SELLERS MIDDLE records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Black, 8% Asian, 7% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting SELLERS MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SELLERS MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.7%, the actual is 40.8%, a residual of +3.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, Dallas County reports that 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), SELLERS MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SHOREHAVEN EL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SELLERS MIDDLE. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SELLERS MIDDLE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 40.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 835 students in 2018 compared to 852 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 19% to 14%.

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