MARSING MIDDLE SCHOOL

MARSING MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the very small junior highs in MARSING, Idaho, operated by MARSING JOINT DISTRICT, with 200 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Idaho's public schools average about 507 students each, so MARSING MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 61% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in MARSING JOINT DISTRICT (816 students total), MARSING MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MARSING MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 45% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.1:1 average. Roughly 63% of students at MARSING MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the broader community, census data for Owyhee County shows median household earnings sit near $64,406, 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Owyhee County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,402 students), MARSING MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MARSING HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around MARSING MIDDLE SCHOOL.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARSING MIDDLE SCHOOL has decreased 3%, going from 206 students in 2018 to 200 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 32% to 45% over that span.

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