Marlowe Elementary School

Marlowe Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of Falling Waters, West Virginia. It has an enrollment of 293 students in pre-K through 2.

Marlowe Elementary School is one school in Berkeley County Schools, a system of 32 schools with 20,006 students.

The largest group at Marlowe Elementary School is White students, at 77%. Other groups make up 13% multiracial, 5% Black, and 4% Hispanic. Berkeley County residents are about 81% White, a similar share. The diversity index for Marlowe Elementary School is 38%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

Its staff includes 19.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 15.0 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in West Virginia, the average ratio is 12.9:1.

For Berkeley County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $80,815 a year, roughly 25% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Marlowe Elementary School, Berkeley County has 33 public schools.

A public school about 2.6 miles away, Springfield Middle, is the closest to Marlowe Elementary School. Marlowe Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

NCES assigns Marlowe Elementary School the locale Suburb: Mid-size, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Marlowe Elementary School had a net gain of 32 students, or 12%.

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