# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marva-collins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:30:36.165Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marva-collins"
name: "Marva Collins"
slug: "marva-collins"
description: "Marva Delores Collins was an American educator. Collins is best known for creating Westside Preparatory School, a widely acclaimed private elementary school in the impoverished Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, which opened in 1975."
tagline: "American schoolteacher (1936-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/National_Medal_of_Humanities_Recipient_Marva_Collins_in_the_Oval_Office_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1936-08-31"
deathDate: "2015-06-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.99
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  historical:           6.689532
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  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1336849"
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    title: "Marva Collins"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump