Summary:
Marlow’s three public schools serve students from prekindergarten through grade 12 and enroll 1,355 students: Marlow Elementary School (PK–5), Marlow Middle School (6–8) and Marlow High School (9–12). In 2025–2026, all three were above state proficiency in English language arts, while mathematics and science results differed more across schools. The most important finding is the sharp subject split at High: it leads in English and history but has the lowest all-grades mathematics and science results.
Marlow Elementary stands out in mathematics and science, with 49% proficient in mathematics—24 points above the state—and 45% in science, 15 points above. Marlow High leads English language arts at 50%, 24 points above the state, and reports 59% proficiency in U.S. History, 18 points above the state. However, its all-grades mathematics result is 18%, 7 points below the state, and science is 25%, 5 points below. Marlow Middle is above the state in all three shared subjects: English language arts by 4 points, mathematics by 4 and science by 7. Because the schools serve different grades, all-grades comparisons are descriptive.
Recent results show different directions across subjects: Elementary mathematics rose 3 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while English language arts fell 8 points and science fell 18. Middle improved 1 point in English language arts and 4 in mathematics, but science declined 4 points. SchoolDigger gives all three schools four stars; Elementary ranks 72nd statewide (88th percentile), High 72nd (84th percentile) and Middle 89th (76th percentile). For context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 54% at Elementary, 51% at Middle and 44% at High. Student-teacher ratios that year were 17.1 at Elementary, 12.5 at Middle and 13.5 at High; these figures describe different school contexts but do not explain the subject-by-subject results.
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