East Marshall Middle School

East Marshall Middle School is a middle-grades school of minimally staffed scale in Gilman, Iowa, part of East Marshall Comm School District, instructing 157 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 61% below the state mean of about 400.

Across the 3 schools in East Marshall Comm School District (616 students total), East Marshall Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, East Marshall Middle School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). The remainder consists of 13% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 71% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, East Marshall Middle School has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Marshall County (around 65%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), East Marshall Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.5%; this one delivers 73.7%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Marshall County put median household earnings sit near $73,315, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Marshall County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,903 students), of which East Marshall Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: East Marshall Elementary School, around 7.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, East Marshall Middle School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 74.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. East Marshall Middle School's enrollment has fell 50% since 2018, when it stood at 316 (now 157). The White share of enrollment shrank from 89% to 82% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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