MFL MarMac Elementary School
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Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 78% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MFL MarMac Elementary School
Located at 700 S Page St., in Monona, Iowa, MFL MarMac Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary-level community that works with 318 students (grades pre-K through 3), run under MFL MarMac Comm School District.
Within MFL MarMac Comm School District, which oversees 4 schools and 879 students, MFL MarMac Elementary School is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, MFL MarMac Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). The remainder looks like 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Clayton County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Clayton County (around 39%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MFL MarMac Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.6%, the actual is 73.7%, a residual of -4.0 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Clayton County put median household income runs about $67,242, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Clayton County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,625 students), of which MFL MarMac Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: MFL MarMac High School, around 0.0 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, MFL MarMac Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 65.4%.
MFL MarMac Elementary School operates from a low-density location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MFL MarMac Elementary School has decreased 3%, going from 329 students in 2018 to 318 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.
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