Marshall Elementary School

As a mid-tier elementary campus in S ORANGE, New Jersey, Marshall Elementary School educates 504 students from grades K through 4, overseen by South Orange-Maplewood School District. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 24% bigger than typical.

Across the 10 schools in South Orange-Maplewood School District (6,728 students total), Marshall Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Marshall Elementary School records that White students make up the majority at 56%. The remainder looks like 16% Black, 12% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 30% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Marshall Elementary School lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Essex County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Marshall Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.5%, the actual is 75.4%, a residual of +13.9 points.

Around the school, Essex County reports that median household earnings sit near $80,789, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Marshall Elementary School is one of 249 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students).

STEM Innovation Academy of the Oranges is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Marshall Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Marshall Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 41.4%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Marshall Elementary School's enrollment has grew 3% since 2018, when it stood at 487 (now 504). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 7% to 12%.

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