James and Margie Marion Elementary School

Size

Of the 16 elementary schools in Allen ISD, James and Margie Marion Elementary School is the 6th largest, with 3.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.2 miles away and have a median of 559 students, so James and Margie Marion Elementary School is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 5 with 122 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 85, against an average of 98 per grade. This year grade 6 has 11% more students than kindergarten (102 against 92). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 35.6% of enrollment, about the same share as across Allen ISD (34.7%). Asian students are next, at 29.4%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

18.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 22% across Allen ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

James and Margie Marion Elementary School has 46.58 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 688 students would have about 46.5 teachers, so James and Margie Marion Elementary School has about as many as that.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Gene M Reed Elementary School, 1.1 miles away in the same district. There are 28 elementary schools within 5 miles and 119 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.