Marshall Math Science Academy

Marshall Math Science Academy is one of the tight-knit 6-8 campuss in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, part of Harrisburg City SD, with 408 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 31% smaller than typical.

Marshall Math Science Academy is one of 12 schools operated by Harrisburg City SD, a district that hosts 6,462 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Marshall Math Science Academy logs that 50% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 38% Hispanic, 5% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 17% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Marshall Math Science Academy has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Dauphin County's rate of about 59%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Marshall Math Science Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.7%; this one delivers 32.3%.

Around the school, census data for Dauphin County shows median household income runs about $76,242, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Dauphin County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,718 students), Marshall Math Science Academy is one campus in the mix.

Harrisburg HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Marshall Math Science Academy comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 20.9%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 16%: 352 students in 2018 compared to 408 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 56% to 50%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 28.2:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.

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