DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD

Set in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD is a reasonably sized primary school, overseen by LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT. It serves 414 students across grades pre-K through 5.

LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 22,320 students; DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD is among them.

Looking at the student body, DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD logs that 92% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial, 3% White, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Pulaski County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.0:1, putting DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Pulaski County (around 71%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.6%; this one delivers 11.8%.

Around the school, Pulaski County reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,873 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Pulaski County runs 133 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students), of which DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD is one.

PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL ONLINE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 22.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 468 (now 414).

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