MARLIN EL

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in MARLIN, Texas, MARLIN EL serves 479 students from grades pre-K through 6, run under MARLIN ISD.

MARLIN EL is one of 3 schools operated by MARLIN ISD, a district that caters to 843 students overall.

Looking at the student body, MARLIN EL records that the largest single group is Black at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 39% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Falls County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Falls County's rate of about 79%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MARLIN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.9%, the actual is 21.4%, a residual of -9.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Falls County) records that the typical household earns roughly $57,247 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Falls County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,358 students), of which MARLIN EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: MARLIN HIGH, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around MARLIN EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MARLIN EL at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 48.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARLIN EL has rose 24%, going from 386 students in 2018 to 479 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 28% to 39% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 today.

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