MARATHON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST

Set in MARATHON, Texas, MARATHON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST is an one-room-style combined-grade school, part of MARATHON ISD. It hosts 58 students across grades pre-K through 12. That puts it 88% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 485 students.

MARATHON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST is a school of MARATHON ISD, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, MARATHON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 31% White, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 42% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 4.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.7:1, putting MARATHON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Brewster County (around 55%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, MARATHON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.0%, the actual is 53.0%, a residual of +10.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Brewster County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $56,212 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Brewster County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,093 students), of which MARATHON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST is one.

ALPINE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 27.2 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, MARATHON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 49.1%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 63 students in 2018 compared to 58 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 41% to 31%. Class-load math has tightened: from 6.5:1 in 2018 to 4.7:1 in 2025.

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