MARION MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MAGNET SCHOOL

MARION MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MAGNET SCHOOL is one of the heavily attended primary schools in MARION, Arkansas, operated by MARION SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 654 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 56% larger than the state mean of about 418.

MARION SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,888 students; MARION MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MAGNET SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, MARION MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MAGNET SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Black, at 55% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 30% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, MARION MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MAGNET SCHOOL logs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Crittenden County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MARION MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MAGNET SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.9%, the actual is 20.7%, a residual of -8.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Crittenden County shows the typical household earns roughly $55,358 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Crittenden County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,770 students), MARION MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MAGNET SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MARION SEVENTH GRADE ACADEMY, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MARION MATH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MAGNET SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 20.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

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