A O Marshall Elem School

As a low-enrollment elementary school in Joliet, Illinois, An O Marshall Elem School enrolls 246 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Joliet PSD 86. That puts it 35% smaller than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Joliet PSD 86 comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 9,333 students; An O Marshall Elem School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, An O Marshall Elem School logs that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic. The remainder looks like 11% Black, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 20% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 95% of students at An O Marshall Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Will County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, An O Marshall Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.6%; this one delivers 19.2%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Will County put the typical household earns roughly $109,984 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. An O Marshall Elem School is one of 209 public schools in Will County (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students).

Isaac Singleton Elem Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, An O Marshall Elem School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 32.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at An O Marshall Elem School has shrank 49%, going from 485 students in 2018 to 246 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 74% to 82% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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