Marmaton Valley Elem

Marmaton Valley Elem, a modestly sized K-5 school in Moran, Kansas, run under Marmaton Valley, serves 134 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 313 students per school, that is 57% smaller than typical.

Marmaton Valley runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 276 students. Marmaton Valley Elem is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Marmaton Valley Elem reports that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 9% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at Marmaton Valley Elem qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Allen County's rate of about 57%.

With demographic context factored in, Marmaton Valley Elem ranks in the top 10% of Kansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 30.0%; Marmaton Valley Elem posts 52.3%, +22.3 points above that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Allen County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,689 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Allen County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,464 students), Marmaton Valley Elem is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Marmaton Valley High, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Marmaton Valley Elem comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 34.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. Marmaton Valley Elem's enrollment has contracted 7% since 2018, when it stood at 144 (now 134). Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Marmaton Valley Elem community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.