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Enrollment
414
Elementary
DISTRICT 436 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050900000176
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD
905 M L KING DRIVE, LITTLE ROCK, AR 72201 · (501) 447-5100 · Pulaski County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL414 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Arkansas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
411 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 70%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 93 | 22% |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 39 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 50% larger than its 5th grade class (52).
Student demographics
16%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 61% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
10.1%
AR avg 34.9% . -3.4pp since 2023
Math
10.2%
AR avg 38.9% . -0.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 10 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 10.1% | 10.2% |
| 2023-24 | 13.5% | 10.8% |
% Proficient (Level 3+4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: ATLAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
11.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.9%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 11% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Arkansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
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DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD's state test result (11.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD this school | 414 | 99.3% | 11.3% |
| THIRTY-FOURTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PINE BLUFF | 399 | 100.0% | 10.0% |
| STEWART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORREST CITY | 400 | 100.0% | 20.1% |
| MADDUX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST MEMPHIS | 402 | 100.0% | 12.1% |
| MATTHEWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PINE BLUFF | 367 | 100.0% | 11.4% |
| KIPP DELTA ELEMENTARY LITERACY ACADEMY WEST HELENA | 463 | 100.0% | 17.4% |
Matched among Arkansas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 11.3% | #442 of 461 | #52 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.2% | #451 of 465 ▼ 13 | #56 of 63 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 10.1% | #454 of 465 ▼ 20 | #56 of 63 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 414 | #259 of 531 | #31 of 72 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #122 of 480 | #17 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 15.5% | #418 of 480 | #63 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.3% | #99 of 513 | #16 of 69 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.5% | #176 of 311 | #28 of 42 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
414
+121 (+41%) vs 2020
-31% since 2000-01, when it was 599
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 11.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 414 | 27.8 | 14.9:1 | 99% (411) |
| 2023-24 | 382 | 28.2 | 13.6:1 | 88% (335) |
| 2022-23 | 341 | 25.7 | 13.3:1 | 87% (295) |
| 2020-21 | 293 | 26 | 11.3:1 | 100% (293) |
| 2017-18 | 468 | 31.5 | 14.9:1 | 27% (126) |
| 2015-16 | 462 | 32 | 14.4:1 | 99% (459) |
| 2010-11 | 635 | 38 | 16.7:1 | 82% (523) |
| 2000-01 | 599 | 29 | 20.7:1 | 41% (245) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD.
About DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD is a mid-sized elementary school in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas. It reports enrollment of 414 students in pre-K through 5.
LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT is made up of 40 schools with 22,320 students in all.
Black students are 92% of those enrolled at DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD. The next largest groups are 3% multiracial, 3% White, and 2% Hispanic. In Pulaski County overall, about 37% of residents are Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 16, compared with 70 nationally.
On staff are 27.8 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.9:1. Elementary schools in Arkansas average 16.0:1, 1.1 more students per teacher than here. DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 99%. The rate at public schools in Pulaski County averages 71%, lower than here.
Among Arkansas public elementary schools, DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD outscored 3%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD is -11.6 points: 11.3% actual, 22.9% predicted.
The school is in Pulaski County, where the median household earns about $62,873 a year, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD shares Pulaski County with 132 other public schools.
PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF LITTLE ROCK is about 0.5 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 20.3%; DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD's is 11.3%, ranking 4th of 6.
Locale: City: Mid-size. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
In 2020-21, federal data counted 293 students at DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD; in 2024-25, 414. The grades served may not have been the same in both years. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 11.3:1 in 2020-21 to 14.9:1 in 2024-25.
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Pulaski County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
399,818
Census ACS
Median income
$62,873
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
133
64,124 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- LITTLE ROCK SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,045 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
- DON ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,035 students
- CHICOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 897 students
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,567 students
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY ELEMENTARYElementary · 1,387 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,315 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
Nearby schools
- PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL OF LITTLE ROCK0.5 mi · 78
- PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL ONLINE0.5 mi · 292
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 1,315
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY ELEMENTARY0.5 mi · 1,387
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 2,567
- GIBBS MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 291
Frequently asked questions
About DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACADHow large is DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD?
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD enrolls approximately 414 students in grades PK-05.
Is DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD an elementary, middle, or high school?
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD?
Approximately 14.9:1 students per teacher at DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD.
What is the student diversity at DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD?
Student demographics at DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD are roughly 3% White, 2% Hispanic, 92% Black, 3% Two or more.
What district is DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD in?
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR LEADERSHIP & LANGUAGE MAGNET ACAD is part of LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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