MARK TWAIN ELEM.

MARK TWAIN ELEM., a medium-sized elementary-level community in HANNIBAL, Missouri, run under HANNIBAL 60, teaches 376 students, covering grades K through 5.

MARK TWAIN ELEM. is one of 8 schools operated by HANNIBAL 60, a district that enrolls 3,366 students overall.

In terms of who attends, MARK TWAIN ELEM. reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). The remainder reads as 7% multiracial, 7% Black, 3% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, MARK TWAIN ELEM. has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, MARK TWAIN ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 34.5%, a residual of -15.6 points.

Across the wider county, Marion County reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,903 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. MARK TWAIN ELEM. is one of 15 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 4,724 students).

Nearest neighbor: EUGENE FIELD ELEM., around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MARK TWAIN ELEM. at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 57.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARK TWAIN ELEM. has increased 7%, going from 352 students in 2018 to 376 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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