Marvin Elementary

Marvin Elementary is a primary school of medium-sized scale in Marvin, North Carolina, overseen by Union County Public Schools, works with 666 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Marvin Elementary sits 43% bigger than that benchmark.

Union County Public Schools comprises 52 schools with combined enrollment of 41,272 students; Marvin Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Marvin Elementary lists that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 26% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at school resources, Marvin Elementary logs 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 4% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Union County (around 41%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Marvin Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.5%, the actual is 89.4%, a residual of +11.9 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Union County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $102,900 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Marvin Elementary is one of 58 public schools in Union County (combined enrollment of about 45,934 students).

Nearest neighbor: Marvin Ridge High, around 1.9 miles off. 8 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), Marvin Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 85.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 7%: 625 students in 2018 compared to 666 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 69% to 54% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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