William McKinley Elementary School

William McKinley Elementary School is an elementary campus of reasonably sized scale in Marion, Ohio, part of Marion City, instructing 444 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Marion City runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 4,040 students. William McKinley Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, William McKinley Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 14% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 4% Black. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, William McKinley Elementary School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.8:1. That tracks the state average closely.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate the typical household earns roughly $59,371 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Marion County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,492 students), of which William McKinley Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is James A. Garfield Elementary School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around William McKinley Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 443 students in 2018 compared to 444 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.