Marsh Elem School

Marsh Elem School is one of the expansive elementary schools in Chicago, Illinois, part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, with 616 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 62% above the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Marsh Elem School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Marsh Elem School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%). Other groups include 12% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Marsh Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.7%, the actual is 28.7%, a residual of +5.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Marsh Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mireles Elem Academy, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Marsh Elem School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 16.6%.

Marsh Elem School operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Marsh Elem School has contracted 19%, going from 759 students in 2018 to 616 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged down from 92% to 84% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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