King Jr. (Martin Luther) Academic Middle

King Jr. (Martin Luther) Academic Middle is a cozy middle school in San Francisco, California, part of San Francisco Unified. The school serves 367 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 44% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

San Francisco Unified comprises 106 schools with combined enrollment of 48,706 students; King Jr. (Martin Luther) Academic Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, King Jr. (Martin Luther) Academic Middle records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 33% Asian, 14% Black, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, King Jr. (Martin Luther) Academic Middle lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than San Francisco County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), King Jr. (Martin Luther) Academic Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.1%; this one delivers 25.9%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (San Francisco County) reports that median household income runs about $140,970, about 60% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, San Francisco County runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students), of which King Jr. (Martin Luther) Academic Middle is one.

Taylor (Edward R.) Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, King Jr. (Martin Luther) Academic Middle comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 23.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. King Jr. (Martin Luther) Academic Middle's enrollment has contracted 27% since 2018, when it stood at 502 (now 367). The Asian share of enrollment ticked down from 52% to 33% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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