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Public school / Primary

Longfellow Elem School

Marion, Illinois

NCES ID
172460002665
District
Marion CUSD 2
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Longfellow Elem School is a public primary school in Marion, Illinois, run by Marion CUSD 2. It enrols 241 students — the 73346th largest of 4,435 public schools in Illinois.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

241students

73346th nationally, tied with 133

Teachers

19.0FTE

67148th nationally, tied with 2,240

Students per teacher

12.7students

26003rd nationally, tied with 775

Free or reduced-price lunch

71.4%percent

29617th nationally, tied with 122

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Marion CUSD 2

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Marion High School1,159 students
  2. 2Marion Jr High School726 students
  3. 3Lincoln Elem School487 students
  4. 4Washington Elem School487 students
  5. 5Jefferson Elem School389 students
  6. 6Adams School260 students
  7. 7Longfellow Elem School241 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Illinois median across 4,435 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−40.3%
  • Teachers−26.9%
  • Students per teacher−7.3%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+33.7%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.