Summary:
ZIP code 53559 contains two elementary schools, both in the Marshall School District: Marshall Early Learning Center, serving grades PK–2 with 251 students, and Marshall Elementary, serving grades PK–6 with 246 students — about 497 children in total. The district itself is ranked 358th of 432 in Wisconsin, at the 17th percentile with 1 star.
Marshall Elementary is the more academically visible school and the only one with Forward Exam results, since the Early Learning Center serves PK–2. Its 4th grade is the clear bright spot: ELA, math, and social studies all met or exceeded state averages in 2025–2026. ELA improved in every tested grade, with 6th grade rising from 36.73% to 56.92%, now above state. Math is more uneven — only 4th grade beat the state, 6th grade math at 43.08% trails state by about 10.5 points, and 5th grade math fell nearly 20 points. Fourth grade science, at 46.43%, is about 7 points below state. Chronic absenteeism is 13.8%, better than the district's 16.7% and the state's 17.3%, and the school's own rank history is 2 stars at the 37th–40th percentile, stronger than the district rating suggests.
Marshall Early Learning Center stands out mainly for attendance: chronic absenteeism is 17.8%, above both the district and state rates and 4 points higher than Marshall Elementary. The two schools otherwise look similar on resources — per-student spending of $16,069 versus $16,358, student-teacher ratios of 11.8 and 11.6, and free/reduced lunch rates of 43.43% and 45.93% — so the attendance gap is not obviously explained by funding or class size. The Early Learning Center's lack of test data is expected for a PK–2 school, not a concern. Because grade-level groups are small, large year-to-year swings should be read with caution.
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