TOLER EL

Set in GARLAND, Texas, TOLER EL is a close-knit K-5 school, one of the schools within GARLAND ISD. It caters to 425 students across grades pre-K through 5.

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

Demographically, TOLER EL logs that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 24% Black, 11% White, 8% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, TOLER EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.0%; this one delivers 37.3%.

In the surrounding community, Dallas County reports that 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), TOLER EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LAKEVIEW CENTENNIAL H S, around 1.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, TOLER EL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 30%: 608 students in 2018 compared to 425 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 35% to 24% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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