NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools MO

Best-Resourced Schools in Marshall, MO

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8 public K-12 schools in Marshall from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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8
Schools
2,371
Students
50.4/100
Avg Resource Index
12:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Marshall has more public-school enrollment than 19% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Marshall lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Marshall's 8 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 0 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Marshall lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 6 to 827 students, a 138-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 81%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
88th percentile
Teacher staffing
88th percentile

Marshall Sr. High accounts for 34.9% of all Marshall public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Marshall-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Marshall school enrollment varies 138× across entities

Marshall school enrollment ranges from 6 students (lowest) to 827 students (highest), a spread of 821 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Marshall reports 52.1% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Marshall student-teacher ratio is 12.0:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Bueker Middle 62
2. Hardeman Elem. 60
3. Spainhower Primary School 55
4. Eastwood Elem. 50
5. Southeast Elem. 46
6. Marshall Sr. High 45
7. Benton Elem. 44
8. Prairie View School 41

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Marshall

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Eastwood Elem. 68.3/100
  2. 2 Spainhower Primary School 67.5/100
  3. 3 Bueker Middle 66.4/100
  4. 4 Benton Elem. 63.9/100
  5. 5 Marshall Sr. High 63.3/100

What do families ask about schools in Marshall?

Which Marshall school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Bueker Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Marshall schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Marshall, MO? ▼

Marshall has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,371 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.