Marathon Independent School District is a school district based in Marathon, a census designated place in Brewster County, Texas, United States.
Marathon ISD serves Marathon and a few surrounding areas of northeastern Brewster County. The district is composed of two buildings: an elementary school building and a high school building.
As of 2007, the Texas State Energy Conservation Office awards Marathon ISD money due to the colonias served by the district.
In 2009, the school district was rated "recognized" by the Texas Education Agency.
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“The mountains look on Marathon—
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dreamed that Greece might still be free;
For standing on the Persians’ grave,
I could not deem myself a slave.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, are effectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.”
—Raymond Williams (1921–1988)
“A school is not a factory. Its raison d’être is to provide opportunity for experience.”
—J.L. (James Lloyd)
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—Rebecca West (1892–1983)