MARILLA PRIMARY SCHOOL

MARILLA PRIMARY SCHOOL, a tight-knit K-5 school in MARILLA, New York, run under IROQUOIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 221 students, covering grades pre-K through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 50% below the state mean of about 443.

IROQUOIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,073 students. MARILLA PRIMARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, MARILLA PRIMARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%). Other groups include 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, MARILLA PRIMARY SCHOOL logs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting MARILLA PRIMARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MARILLA PRIMARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 69.5%.

In the broader community, census data for Erie County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MARILLA PRIMARY SCHOOL is one of 226 public schools in Erie County (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students).

IROQUOIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.7 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MARILLA PRIMARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 64.7%.

MARILLA PRIMARY SCHOOL operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARILLA PRIMARY SCHOOL has stayed largely flat, going from 223 students in 2018 to 221 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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