Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School

Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in Huntsville, Alabama, part of Huntsville City, with 458 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Huntsville City comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 24,222 students; Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School reports that 68% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school reports 17% Hispanic, 8% White, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. The state averages about 17.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 80% of students at Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Madison County's rate of about 41%.

After controlling for student poverty, Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.9%, the actual is 19.4%, a residual of -6.5 points.

Across the wider county, Madison County reports that median household earnings sit near $86,499, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Madison County's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: New Century Technology High School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.1%.

Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 5%: 481 students in 2018 compared to 458 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 74% to 68% over that span.

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