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Enrollment
536
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LINN-MAR COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 191722002092
Echo Hill Elementary
400 Echo Hill Road, Marion, IA 52302 · (319) 730-3560 · Linn County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL536 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 90% of Iowa public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
39 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 41%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 50 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 96 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 108 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 104 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (96) is 8% smaller than its 4th grade class (104).
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 48% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
92.3%
IA avg 73.6% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
94.3%
IA avg 70.9% . +3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 92 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 94 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 92.3% | 94.3% |
| 2023-24 | 88.3% | 91.0% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
91.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
88.3%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 91% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 88% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Echo Hill Elementary
Echo Hill Elementary's state test result (91.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Echo Hill Elementary this school | 536 | 7.3% | 91.5% |
| Pleasant View Elementary School Bettendorf | 621 | 8.5% | 89.8% |
| Forest Grove Elementary Bettendorf | 332 | 4.5% | 87.1% |
| Waterford Elementary School Urbandale | 464 | 10.1% | N/A |
| Sugar Creek Elementary School Waukee | 630 | 18.6% | 79.0% |
| Henry A Wallace Elementary School Johnston | 840 | 12.9% | 85.5% |
Matched among Iowa elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Echo Hill Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Linn County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 91.5% | #6 of 564 | #1 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 94.3% | #9 of 564 ▲ 21 | #1 of 39 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 92.3% | #8 of 564 ▲ 15 | #1 of 39 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 536 | #81 of 705 | #5 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #544 of 561 | #42 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.3% | #294 of 561 | #34 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 7.3% | #657 of 666 | #44 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.9% | #308 of 359 | #27 of 30 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
536
+39 (+8%) vs 2020
+5% since 2010-11, when it was 509
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 17.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 536 | 31 | 17.3:1 | 7% (39) |
| 2023-24 | 519 | 33 | 15.7:1 | 8% (42) |
| 2022-23 | 544 | 34.7 | 15.7:1 | 7% (38) |
| 2020-21 | 497 | 28 | 17.8:1 | 7% (37) |
| 2017-18 | 558 | 33.3 | 16.8:1 | 12% (69) |
| 2015-16 | 611 | 37 | 16.5:1 | 22% (132) |
| 2010-11 | 509 | 36 | 14.1:1 | 16% (83) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Echo Hill Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (558 to 536); teachers down 7% (33.3 to 31).
About Echo Hill Elementary
Echo Hill Elementary is a public elementary school run by Linn-Mar Comm School District in Marion, Iowa. The school's 536 students are in pre-K through 4. Enrollment is 65% higher than the average for elementary schools in Iowa, which is about 325.
District-wide, Linn-Mar Comm School District has 12 schools and 7,361 students.
Roughly 79% of students at Echo Hill Elementary are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 12% Asian, 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 2% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 36% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal staffing data show 31 full-time-equivalent teachers at Echo Hill Elementary and a ratio of 17.3:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Iowa. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 7% of enrollment. That rate is below the 40% average among public schools in Linn County.
Measured against Iowa public elementary schools, Echo Hill Elementary receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Echo Hill Elementary posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 91.5%, compared with a predicted 88.3%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Iowa schools on BeatsExpectations.
Among Linn County residents, the median household income is $77,649, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Besides Echo Hill Elementary, Linn County has 82 other public schools.
The nearest public school is Hazel Point Intermediate School, at about 0.1 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Echo Hill Elementary comes in 1st of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Echo Hill Elementary is Suburb: Mid-size, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school enrolled 536 students in 2024-25, 39 more than the 497 it had in 2020-21.
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Linn County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
230,004
Census ACS
Median income
$77,649
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
36,480 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Linn-Mar Comm School District
- Linn-Mar High SchoolHigh · 2,229 students
- Boulder Peak Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 613 students
- Excelsior Middle SchoolMiddle · 594 students
- Hazel Point Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 563 students
- Oak Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 534 students
- Westfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 445 students
Other schools in Marion
- Linn-Mar High SchoolHigh · 2,229 students
- Marion High SchoolHigh · 735 students
- Boulder Peak Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 613 students
- Excelsior Middle SchoolMiddle · 594 students
- Vernon Middle SchoolMiddle · 587 students
- Hazel Point Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 563 students
Nearby schools
- Hazel Point Intermediate School0.1 mi · 563
- Oak Ridge Middle School0.4 mi · 534
- Excelsior Middle School1.4 mi · 594
- Linn-Mar High School1.7 mi · 2,229
- Novak Elementary School1.8 mi · 347
- Indian Creek Elementary School1.9 mi · 354
Frequently asked questions
About Echo Hill ElementaryHow large is Echo Hill Elementary?
Echo Hill Elementary enrolls approximately 536 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does Echo Hill Elementary serve?
Echo Hill Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Echo Hill Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Echo Hill Elementary is approximately 17.3:1 (31 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Echo Hill Elementary?
Echo Hill Elementary reports a student body of 79% White, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black, 12% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Echo Hill Elementary?
Echo Hill Elementary is overseen by Linn-Mar Comm School District in Linn County.
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