Martha Gaskins K5

Martha Gaskins K5 operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in Birmingham, Alabama, operated by Birmingham City. Current enrollment sits at 537 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Martha Gaskins K5 is one of 43 schools operated by Birmingham City, a district that caters to 20,954 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Martha Gaskins K5 records that the largest single group is Black, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 26% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Martha Gaskins K5 has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 26.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Martha Gaskins K5 higher than the state norm the norm. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Jefferson County's rate of about 52%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Martha Gaskins K5 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.6%; this one delivers 24.9%.

In the area at large, Jefferson County reports that median household income runs about $66,388, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Jefferson County's 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), Martha Gaskins K5 is one campus in the mix.

Huffman Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Martha Gaskins K5 comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.2%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 3%: 519 students in 2018 compared to 537 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 82% to 69% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 26.9:1 today.

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