East Park Elementary School

East Park Elementary School is an elementary campus of moderately sized scale in Fairmont, West Virginia, overseen by Marion County Schools, educateing 321 students in grades K through 4.

Marion County Schools runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 7,112 students. East Park Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, East Park Elementary School logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 7% multiracial, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Marion County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, East Park Elementary School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. The state averages about 12.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate median household earnings sit near $67,370, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Marion County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,112 students), of which East Park Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is East Fairmont Middle School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around East Park Elementary School.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at East Park Elementary School has ticked up 4%, going from 308 students in 2018 to 321 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 94% to 88% over that span.

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