Enrollment
323
Elementary
DISTRICT 349 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUBUQUE COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190948000615
Marshall Elementary School
1450 Rhomberg Ave, Dubuque, IA 52001 · (563) 552-4100 · Dubuque County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL323 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 17% of Iowa public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
10.7:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
206 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 | 25 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 41 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
58.8%
IA avg 73.6% . +7.5pp since 2023
Math
58.8%
IA avg 70.9% . +3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.8% | 58.8% |
| 2023-24 | 51.3% | 55.3% |
% 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
57.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.0%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 Marshall Elementary School
Marshall Elementary School's state test result (57.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marshall Elementary School this school | 323 | 63.8% | 57.0% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Charles City | 280 | 61.4% | 59.1% |
| Bluff Elementary School Clinton | 372 | 63.4% | 68.7% |
| Poyner Elementary Evansdale | 362 | 59.9% | 64.4% |
| Hawthorne Elementary School Keokuk | 454 | 62.6% | 66.7% |
| Cardinal Elementary School Maquoketa | 260 | 60.8% | N/A |
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 Marshall Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Dubuque County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #472 of 564 | #13 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.8% | #482 of 564 ▲ 15 | #13 of 16 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.8% | #461 of 564 ▲ 26 | #12 of 16 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 323 | #330 of 705 | #9 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #27 of 561 | #4 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.5% | #218 of 561 | #5 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.8% | #102 of 666 | #4 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.9% | #149 of 168 | #9 of 9 |
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
323
+9 (+3%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 352
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 323 | 30.1 | 10.7:1 | 64% (206) |
| 2023-24 | 335 | 31 | 10.8:1 | 56% (188) |
| 2022-23 | 330 | 28.9 | 11.4:1 | 62% (205) |
| 2020-21 | 314 | 28 | 11.2:1 | 64% (202) |
| 2017-18 | 317 | 28.6 | 11.1:1 | 50% (158) |
| 2015-16 | 309 | 25 | 12.4:1 | 68% (211) |
| 2010-11 | 249 | 23 | 10.8:1 | 64% (159) |
| 2000-01 | 320 | 22 | 14.6:1 | 33% (106) |
| 1990-91 | 352 | 21 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Marshall Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (317 to 323); teachers up 5% (28.6 to 30.1).
About Marshall Elementary School
Marshall Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school found in Dubuque, Iowa. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 323 students enrolled.
A total of 19 schools make up Dubuque Comm School District, with 9,843 students enrolled.
The student body at Marshall Elementary School is 69% White. After that, the student body is 10% Pacific Islander, 9% multiracial, 7% Black, and 3% Hispanic. Among all residents of Dubuque County, the White share is about 89%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 49%.
The school had 30.1 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 10.7:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Iowa is 13.7:1. The school reported 64% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That rate is above the 39% average among public schools in Dubuque County.
Marshall Elementary School earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 17% of Iowa public elementary schools.
The model predicts 60.0% for a school in Iowa with Marshall Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Marshall Elementary School posts 57.0%.
In Dubuque County, median household income comes to about $77,630, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 33% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Dubuque County counts 26 public schools with about 13,164 students.
Measured in a straight line, Thomas Jefferson Middle School is about 0.4 miles from Marshall Elementary School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Marshall Elementary School ranks 4th on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Marshall Elementary School the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 323, from 314 in 2020-21.
People who know Marshall Elementary School can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Dubuque County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
99,030
Census ACS
Median income
$77,630
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
13,164 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Dubuque Comm School District
- Hempstead High SchoolHigh · 1,499 students
- Dubuque Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,490 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 584 students
- Eisenhower Elementary SchoolElementary · 568 students
- Carver Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
Other schools in Dubuque
- Hempstead High SchoolHigh · 1,499 students
- Dubuque Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,490 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 584 students
- Eisenhower Elementary SchoolElementary · 568 students
- Carver Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
Other Marshall Elementary schools
21 other US public schools in 15 states are named Marshall Elementary. Marshall Elementary School is the 14th largest of the 22.
- Marshall Elementary SchoolWexford, PA · 800 students
- Marshall ElementaryOrangeburg, SC · 625 students
- Marshall ElementaryCastro Valley, CA · 515 students
- Marshall Elementary SchoolS ORANGE, NJ · 504 students
- Marshall ElementaryFowler, CA · 486 students
Nearby schools
- Thomas Jefferson Middle School0.4 mi · 402
- Audubon Elementary School0.7 mi · 247
- Prescott Elementary School1.3 mi · 352
- East Dubuque Elementary School2.0 mi · 359
- Lincoln Elementary School2.1 mi · 257
- Dubuque Senior High School2.2 mi · 1,490
Frequently asked questions
About Marshall Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Marshall Elementary School?
Marshall Elementary School enrolls approximately 323 students in grades PK-05.
Is Marshall Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Marshall Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Marshall Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Marshall Elementary School is approximately 10.7:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Marshall Elementary School?
Student demographics at Marshall Elementary School are roughly 69% White, 3% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Marshall Elementary School in?
Marshall Elementary School is part of Dubuque Comm School District.
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