NORMA KRUEGER EL/BERT KARRER CAMPUS

NORMA KRUEGER EL/BERT KARRER CAMPUS, an intimate primary school in MARION, Texas, overseen by MARION ISD, serves 387 students, covering grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so NORMA KRUEGER EL/BERT KARRER CAMPUS sits 25% leaner than that benchmark.

MARION ISD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,709 students; NORMA KRUEGER EL/BERT KARRER CAMPUS is among them.

On demographics, NORMA KRUEGER EL/BERT KARRER CAMPUS reports that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 44% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, NORMA KRUEGER EL/BERT KARRER CAMPUS has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 35% of students at NORMA KRUEGER EL/BERT KARRER CAMPUS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Guadalupe County's rate of about 45%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, NORMA KRUEGER EL/BERT KARRER CAMPUS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.1%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Guadalupe County indicate the typical household earns roughly $92,375 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Guadalupe County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,977 students), of which NORMA KRUEGER EL/BERT KARRER CAMPUS is one.

Nearest neighbor: MARION ALTERNATIVE CENTER, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around NORMA KRUEGER EL/BERT KARRER CAMPUS. On composite proficiency, NORMA KRUEGER EL/BERT KARRER CAMPUS comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.6%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 21%: 320 students in 2018 compared to 387 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

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