Summary:
ZIP code 46952 in Marion, Indiana, contains four public schools serving grades K–6 — three K–4 elementaries and one grades 5–6 intermediate — with no high school inside the ZIP, and all four belong to Marion Community Schools.
Together they enroll 1,682 students: 1,182 across the three elementaries and 500 at Justice Thurgood Marshall Intrmd, the largest school here. The clearest pattern is that the elementaries outperform the district while the intermediate school trails it. John W Kendall Elementary School posts the strongest academics, with 43.7% all-grade math and 29.09% science against the district's 25.61% and 19.65%, and its 4th-grade math of 60% versus the state's 52% is the only grade-level result in the ZIP above the state. It also ranks highest locally at 690 of 1,015 (32nd percentile, 2 stars) despite the lowest per-student spending, $11,825. Riverview Elementary School is solid in math (37.61%) and science (28.81%) but slipped from 2 stars to 1 star as ELA and math declined. Allen Elementary School improved the most — ELA from 14.53% to 28.93%, math from 24.79% to 30.58%, science from 14.29% to 20.34%, moving from 0 stars to 1 star — yet remains lowest-ranked at 797 of 1,015 (21st percentile). Marshall is below the district in all three subjects (20.63% ELA, 19.73% math, 15.35% science) despite the highest spending ($13,123) and lowest student/teacher ratio (12.9).
Poverty and absenteeism are systemic: free/reduced lunch runs 74.05% to 82.37%, and chronic absenteeism 19.0% to 26.2% — below the district's 27.4% but above the state's 16.7%. Third-grade ELA is uniformly low (18.75%–20.97% vs. the state's 40.8%), and science and social studies lag throughout; no elementary science result exceeds 29.09% against the state's 43.8%, and Marshall's 6th-grade science is 15.35% vs. the state's 41.2%. Even the top-ranked school sits at the 32nd percentile, below the statewide midpoint.
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