Marmet Elementary School

Set in Marmet, West Virginia, Marmet Elementary School is a rural-scale elementary school, part of KANAWHA COUNTY SCHOOLS. It serves 103 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 283 students per school, that is 64% smaller than typical.

KANAWHA COUNTY SCHOOLS comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 400 students; Marmet Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Marmet Elementary School records that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% multiracial, 4% Black. Compared to Kanawha County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.9:1 average.

Across the wider county, census data for Kanawha County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,943 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Kanawha County's 70 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,173 students), Marmet Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Du Pont Middle School, around 1.7 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Marmet Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Marmet Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 27% since 2018, when it stood at 141 (now 103). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 99% to 89%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 today.

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