EASTWOOD ELEM.

Set in MARSHALL, Missouri, EASTWOOD ELEM. is a cozy elementary campus, overseen by MARSHALL. It caters to 148 students across grades 3 through 4. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so EASTWOOD ELEM. sits 53% below that benchmark.

MARSHALL runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,498 students. EASTWOOD ELEM. is one of those campuses.

On demographics, EASTWOOD ELEM. logs that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 23% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 11% Pacific Islander, 4% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

On the income-and-resources front, EASTWOOD ELEM. logs 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, EASTWOOD ELEM. sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.1%; actual is 12.0%, a gap of -38.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Saline County put median household income runs about $57,931, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Saline County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,543 students), of which EASTWOOD ELEM. is one.

Nearest neighbor: BUEKER MIDDLE, around 0.5 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts EASTWOOD ELEM. at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 59.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 35%: 226 students in 2018 compared to 148 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 32% to 23%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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