SHOREHAVEN EL

SHOREHAVEN EL, a tight-knit primary school in GARLAND, Texas, overseen by GARLAND ISD, enrolls 350 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 33% below typical.

GARLAND ISD comprises 76 schools with combined enrollment of 53,173 students; SHOREHAVEN EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, SHOREHAVEN EL reports that 78% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 11% Black, 5% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, SHOREHAVEN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.8%, the actual is 43.6%, a residual of +9.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household income runs about $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. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which SHOREHAVEN EL is one.

SELLERS MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SHOREHAVEN EL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 13%: 404 students in 2018 compared to 350 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 74% to 78%.

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