Summary
Marshall (John) Elementary is a K–6 school in Anaheim, California, with 688 students and is part of Anaheim Elementary. Its clearest academic concern is math: in 2025–2026, 19% of students were proficient, compared with 38% statewide, 23% in the district, and a 27% average at the 10 nearby schools. Marshall had the third-lowest math result among the 11 schools compared.
Marshall’s results are stronger in science relative to nearby schools and its district, though still below the state. Science proficiency was 24%, versus 21% in the district and 23% at nearby schools on average, but 36% statewide; only Price (Adelaide) Elementary scored higher among the five nearby schools in the same district. ELA was 32%, near the middle of the local group and close to Gauer (Melbourne A.) Elementary at 32%, but below the 37% nearby average and 49% statewide. Results also vary by grade: grade 4 ELA was a bright spot at 40%, above the district’s 32%, while grade 4 math was 15%, below the district’s 25% and the state’s 42%.
Over time, science has improved while math has weakened: from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, science proficiency rose 9 percentage points, ELA rose 2 points, and math fell 3 points; math’s gap below the state widened by 7 points. SchoolDigger rates Marshall at the 21st percentile with 1 star for 2025–2026, down from the 37th percentile in 2021–2022, though up one percentile point from the prior two years. Chronic absenteeism improved from 36.5% in 2022–2023 to 16.6% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 17.9% and state’s 18.3%. In 2024–2025, the student-teacher ratio was 22.1, compared with 23.1 at nearby schools on average, and 82% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. SchoolDigger’s statewide measure of how well the school serves homeless students placed them at the 1st percentile in 2024–2025, versus the school’s overall 20th percentile; its English language learner measure shifted from the 55th percentile in 2021–2022 to the 3rd in 2022–2023, then the 19th in 2023–2024.
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