Governing the schools within the city of Marion, Indiana as well as the surrounding towns, Marion Community School District offers students a diverse, complete educational experience to guide your students towards the final level of post-secondary education.

Marion Community Schools District includes one preschool center, four elementary schools, one intermediate school, one middle schools, one high school, and one career/technology center. If you are planning to move to Marion or the surrounding areas, it is likely that your children will be placed in one of the following age-appropriate, highly-rated schools:

Marion Early Childhood Center

This early childhood center serves as a Head Start preschool as well as a specialized Special Needs preschool. Teachers are specially trained to teach these early learners using hands-on age-appropriate methods. Students benefit from early literacy and number concepts, large and small motor skills, and social skills.

Kendall Elementary School

Kendall Elementary School is a K-4 school whose teachers have high expectations for their students. They follow the QAR focus (question and answer relationship), teaching their students understand the answers to their questions and the best ways to find the answers to their questions.

Riverview Elementary School

Students here at Riverview Elementary not only focus on literacy and math readiness, but they also get a well-rounded education with art, music, physical education, and library time. Teachers take the lessons learned in the classroom and make real-world connections. Parents are encouraged to take an active role in their child’s education as well.

Allen Elementary School

Allen Elementary School is a public school for students from Kindergarten to Grade 4 and is a highly-rated elementary school within the community. The school implements a uniform policy and has a great student-to-teacher ratio to ensure high productivity and growth for young students.

Frances Slocum Elementary School

Also offering a full curriculum for young students of Marion from Kindergarten to Grade 4, Frances Slocum Elementary School acts as an alternative with the same community rating as Allen Elementary School. 

Justice Thurgood Marshall Intermediate School

Justice Thurgood Marshall Intermediate School educates students in Grades 5-6 and maintains a close atmosphere with a strong extra-curricular activity schedule. The school places extra emphasis on its math and reading curriculum, ensuring its students advance in these areas. The school also aims to make its curriculum fun and exciting for its students by engaging them in frequent theme-day events at the school while also ensuring that their productivity and growth remains at an all-time high.

McCulloch Junior High School

McCulloch Junior High School, “Home of the Bears,” offers a wide variety of athletics to all of its students in Grades 7-8 including basketball, cheerleading, golf, cross country, football, swimming and diving, tennis, wrestling, and track and field. This junior high school also offers a very good student-to-teacher ratio as well as a complete, advanced curriculum for high school preparation.

Marion High School

Marion High School has a strong athletics department, known as the “Giants.” The basketball teams at Marion High School are very well known, having won seven state championship titles over the years. With its seven titles, Marion High School is ranked second in the state, with only Muncie Central surpassing the school with one additional championship title.

The school is also a well-reputed educational institution for its academics and overall curriculum. Marion High School was awarded a bronze medal by the U.S. News and World Report in its ranking of over 19,000 public high schools nationwide, which puts Marion High School in the top 27 percent of all high school in the United States.

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