MARION ELEM.

Located at 2634 SIMS, in ST LOUIS, Missouri, MARION ELEM. is a sprawling K-5 school that instructs 496 students (grades K through 5), operated by RITENOUR. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so MARION ELEM. sits 57% bigger than that benchmark.

RITENOUR runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 6,579 students. MARION ELEM. is one of those campuses.

On demographics, MARION ELEM. shows that 44% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 31% Black, 16% White, 9% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 4%.

On the resource side, On paper, MARION ELEM. has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting MARION ELEM. higher than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, MARION ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.7%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), MARION ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

BUDER ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARION ELEM.. On composite proficiency, MARION ELEM. comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARION ELEM. has held roughly steady, going from 501 students in 2018 to 496 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 30% to 44% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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