Marseilles Elementary School

Marseilles Elementary School is an elementary campus of mid-sized scale in Marseilles, Illinois, part of Marseilles ESD 150, serveing 528 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 39% bigger than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Marseilles Elementary School sits inside Marseilles ESD 150, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, Marseilles Elementary School logs that 75% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, LaSalle County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 57% of students at Marseilles Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Marseilles Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.5%, the actual is 27.8%, a residual of -10.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for LaSalle County indicate median household earnings sit near $73,045, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across LaSalle County's 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,523 students), Marseilles Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Seneca Grade School North Campus, around 4.8 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Marseilles Elementary School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 530 students in 2018 compared to 528 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 85% to 75% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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