SOUTHGATE STEM EL

Located at 1115 MAYFIELD AVE, in GARLAND, Texas, SOUTHGATE STEM EL is a compact primary school that caters to 431 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of GARLAND ISD.

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

Demographically, SOUTHGATE STEM EL lists that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 8% Black, 5% White, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SOUTHGATE STEM EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 94% of students at SOUTHGATE STEM EL qualify 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%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Dallas County put the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which SOUTHGATE STEM EL is one.

The closest other public school is SOUTHGATE EL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOUTHGATE STEM EL.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

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