Linn Grove Elementary School

Linn Grove Elementary School operates as a medium-sized elementary campus in Marion, Iowa, operated by Linn-Mar Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 385 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

Linn-Mar Comm School District runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 7,361 students. Linn Grove Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Linn Grove Elementary School reports that White students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school shows 10% Hispanic, 10% Black, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Linn Grove Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.7%, the actual is 70.5%, a residual of +0.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Linn County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,649 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Linn County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students), of which Linn Grove Elementary School is one.

Boulder Peak Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Linn Grove Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Linn Grove Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 75.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 28%: 532 students in 2018 compared to 385 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 81% to 68%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Linn Grove Elementary School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.