Marble Charter School

Marble Charter School is one of the rural-scale all-grades campuss in MARBLE, Colorado, overseen by Gunnison Watershed School District Re1J, with 34 students on its rolls from grades K through 10. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 523 students each, so Marble Charter School sits 93% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Gunnison Watershed School District Re1J, which oversees 7 schools and 2,095 students, Marble Charter School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Marble Charter School reports that nearly all students (97%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Marble Charter School has 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. The state averages around 14.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 9% of students at Marble Charter School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Gunnison County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Marble Charter School is in the bottom 10% of Colorado public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 61.4%; Marble Charter School posts 45.3%, -16.1 points below that line.

Around the school, census data for Gunnison County shows the typical household earns roughly $84,527 per year, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Marble Charter School is one of 7 public schools in Gunnison County (combined enrollment of about 2,095 students).

Crested Butte Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 18.4 miles from this campus. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Marble Charter School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 45.8%.

The school occupies an outlying site. Marble Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Marble Charter School has decreased 28%, going from 47 students in 2018 to 34 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 11% to 0%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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