About Garland ISD
Garland ISD is a public school system serving Dallas County, Texas, based in Garland. It serves 51,021 students across 69 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a suburb: large district. By enrollment it is the #16 largest of Texas’s 1211 school systems.
Size and structure
Garland ISD enrolls 51,021 students in 69 schools — an average of about 739 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #16 of 1211 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Garland ISD, from the NCES Common Core of Data (51,021 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Garland ISD employs about 3,402 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 15.0:1 — above the Texas average of about 14.9:1. Total district staff is roughly 7,311.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Texas funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Garland ISD are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Texas assigns A–F accountability ratings across Student Achievement, School Progress and Closing the Gaps. Look up Garland ISD’s ratings through the TEA School and District Accountability portal, which links to the TXschools.gov rating lookup.
Accreditation status
Texas accredits public districts itself: the Texas Education Agency assigns each district an accreditation status (Accredited, Accredited-Warned, Accredited-Probation or Not Accredited-Revoked), separate from any voluntary Cognia accreditation. See the Texas Education Agency for a district’s status.
Garland ISD vs. Texas
See every Texas district side by side in the Texas directory.
Look up Garland ISD’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):
