EAST MARION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

EAST MARION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, an intimate elementary campus in Columbia, Mississippi, overseen by Marion County School District, teaches 298 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 33% leaner than the typical public school in Mississippi, which averages around 446 students.

Across the 6 schools in Marion County School District (1,794 students total), EAST MARION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, EAST MARION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 64% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder reads as 28% White, 8% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Marion County runs at roughly 89%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate median household earnings sit near $45,110, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Marion County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,667 students), EAST MARION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

EAST MARION MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EAST MARION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 29%, going from 418 students in 2018 to 298 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

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