Marquette Elem School

Marquette Elem School operates as a close-knit K-5 school in Marquette Heights, Illinois, run under N Pekin & Marquette Hght SD 102. Current enrollment sits at 223 students spanning grades pre-K through 3. That puts it 41% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Marquette Elem School is one of 2 schools operated by N Pekin & Marquette Hght SD 102, a district that serves 453 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Marquette Elem School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 11% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 56% of students at Marquette Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Tazewell County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Marquette Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.4%; this one delivers 47.0%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Tazewell County put median household income runs about $77,982, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Tazewell County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,581 students), Marquette Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Georgetown Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Marquette Elem School. On composite proficiency, Marquette Elem School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 30.9%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Marquette Elem School has changed only slightly, going from 226 students in 2018 to 223 in 2025.

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