Marionneaux Elementary School, Buckeye AZ

Original Research by School Decision on Marionneaux Elementary School

Marionneaux Elementary School is a regular public school serving grades PK through 8 in the Buckeye Elementary District, located in Buckeye, Arizona. Buckeye is one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation, a place where historic agricultural roots meet rapid suburban expansion. The city has nearly 30 master-planned communities under development, with occupied neighborhoods like Verrado, Sundance, and Tartesso giving large areas a suburban residential character. A historic downtown along Monroe Avenue preserves the original small-town core, but the city is overwhelmingly car-dependent, spread across a vast planning area. The economy is diversifying into renewable energy, manufacturing, and logistics, with employers including the school district itself as well as a Walmart distribution center and a battery cell manufacturer.

The district recently opened John S. McCain III Elementary School, a new K-8 facility that expands capacity for the growing area and may shift attendance boundaries. Marionneaux itself is one of the district’s longer-standing schools, sitting in the midst of this rapid growth context.

Marionneaux enrolls several hundred students from kindergarten through 8th grade, with a single preschooler. The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a sizable white minority and a smaller Black population, and small groups of American Indian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and multiracial students. Data on eligibility for free or reduced-price meals and English learner status was not available.

The school’s state assessment results for the most recent school year show proficiency rates in math and English language arts across grades 3 through 8 that are below the midpoint among Maricopa County schools. In math, the share of students meeting proficiency standards is lower in every tested grade than what is typical across the county. In English language arts, results are also lower, with some variation by grade; fifth grade shows a somewhat higher rate than other grades, but still below the county median overall. Science results for grades 5 and 8 follow a similar pattern. Only one year of testing data was available for this analysis, so there is no basis to describe a trend. As an elementary and middle school that does not serve high school grades, Marionneaux has no graduation rate to report.

No information was provided on program offerings such as gifted education, art, music, or extracurriculars, nor on discipline, staffing ratios, or chronic absenteeism. Parents looking for detail on those areas would need to contact the school directly.

Marionneaux Elementary operates in a community defined by rapid residential and economic growth. Its academic performance, based on the state assessments available, registers below the typical school in Maricopa County. A parent choosing this school may want to ask about the school’s specific academic support structures and enrichment opportunities, especially given that the district is adding new capacity to keep up with a booming population.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 336%

School 36% · District 33% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 422%

School 22% · District 34% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Grade 522%

School 22% · District 21% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Grade 617%

School 17% · District 21% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Grade 718%

School 18% · District 21% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 820%

School 20% · District 27% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 321%

School 21% · District 22% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Grade 430%

School 30% · District 33% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

Grade 543%

School 43% · District 26% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 632%

School 32% · District 30% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 729%

School 29% · District 31% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Grade 838%

School 38% · District 32% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Science

Grade 529%

School 29% · District 26% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 826%

School 26% · District 23% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

This schoolBuckeye Elementary District (4269), same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.