East Marshall Senior High School

East Marshall Senior High School is a compact senior high in Le Grand, Iowa, part of East Marshall Comm School District. The school serves 217 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so East Marshall Senior High School sits 54% below that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, East Marshall Senior High School records that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 2% Black. By comparison, Marshall County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Marshall County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, East Marshall Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.1%, the actual is 71.8%, a residual of -3.3 points.

In the broader community, Marshall County reports that median household income runs about $73,315, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. East Marshall Senior High School is one of 17 public schools in Marshall County (combined enrollment of about 6,903 students).

The closest other public school is J C Hoglan Elementary School, roughly 6.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, East Marshall Senior High School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at East Marshall Senior High School has edged down 7%, going from 233 students in 2018 to 217 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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