MMCRU Marcus Elementary

MMCRU Marcus Elementary is an elementary-level community of intimate scale in Marcus, Iowa, overseen by Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn Comm School District, enrolling 166 students in grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 325 students per school, that is 49% below typical.

Within Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn Comm School District, which oversees 2 schools and 379 students, MMCRU Marcus Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, MMCRU Marcus Elementary shows that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 2% Black, 2% multiracial.

On the resource side, MMCRU Marcus Elementary records 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cherokee County (around 41%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MMCRU Marcus Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 76.0%; this one delivers 80.3%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cherokee County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,269 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Cherokee County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,048 students), of which MMCRU Marcus Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: MMCRU High School, around 0.1 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MMCRU Marcus Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 79.1%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. MMCRU Marcus Elementary's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 189 (now 166).

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