Garland School

Garland School is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in GARLAND, Utah, part of Box Elder District, teacheing 658 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 34% above the state mean of about 491.

Within Box Elder District, which oversees 22 schools and 12,554 students, Garland School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Garland School shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 16% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Garland School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Garland School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.6%, the actual is 54.3%, a residual of +8.6 points.

In the area at large, Box Elder County reports that median household income runs about $84,550, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Box Elder County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,997 students), of which Garland School is one.

The closest other public school is Bear River Middle, roughly 0.8 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Garland School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 15%: 778 students in 2018 compared to 658 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 10% to 16% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.