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What advice would you give to incoming students at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary?
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Enrollment
624
Elementary
DISTRICT 442 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HANFORD ELEMENTARY·NCES 061647005804
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary
820 Hume Ave., Hanford, CA 93230 · (559) 585-3715 · Kings County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL624 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% of California public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
24.0:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.9:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
491 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 65%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 104 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 89 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 100 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 88 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (104) is 18% larger than its 6th grade class (88).
Student demographics
30%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 62% · 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
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
62.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +24.6pp since 2014
Math
50.6%
CA avg 37.7% . +28.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 25 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 29 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 31.6% | 31.0% | 21.0% | 16.4% |
| Math | 27.9% | 22.7% | 23.9% | 25.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.6% | 50.6% |
| 2023-24 | 57.0% | 47.8% |
| 2022-23 | 46.5% | 42.1% |
| 2021-22 | 46.3% | 30.9% |
| 2020-21 | 35.3% | 19.4% |
| 2018-19 | 42.9% | 32.5% |
| 2017-18 | 45.7% | 38.9% |
| 2016-17 | 35.7% | 28.9% |
| 2015-16 | 36.0% | 26.0% |
| 2014-15 | 38.0% | 22.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
54.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary's state test result (54.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary this school | 624 | 78.7% | 54.3% |
| Revere (Paul) Elementary Anaheim | 622 | 79.7% | 28.6% |
| Cedargrove Elementary Covina | 569 | 77.3% | 41.0% |
| Los Banos Elementary Los Banos | 622 | 78.6% | 24.9% |
| Unsworth (Edith) Elementary Downey | 633 | 75.0% | 58.9% |
| Cunningham Elementary Turlock | 597 | 79.4% | 18.4% |
Matched among California 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 Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #1,435 of 5,151 | #6 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.6% | #1,549 of 5,172 ▲ 103 | #6 of 30 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.6% | #1,169 of 5,172 ▲ 260 | #5 of 30 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +18.0pp | #84 of 5,116 | #1 of 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 624 | #1,192 of 5,915 | #3 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.0:1 | #3,755 of 5,352 | #26 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.5% | #3,971 of 5,354 | #18 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.7% | #2,302 of 5,625 | #18 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.4% | #735 of 1,139 | N/A |
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
624
-6 (-1%) vs 2020
-5% since 2000-01, when it was 660
Student : Teacher
24.0:1
was 24.2:1
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 | 624 | 26 | 24.0:1 | 79% (491) |
| 2023-24 | 665 | 28 | 23.8:1 | 83% (554) |
| 2022-23 | 630 | 27 | 23.3:1 | 81% (513) |
| 2020-21 | 630 | 26 | 24.2:1 | 80% (501) |
| 2017-18 | 592 | 25 | 23.7:1 | 87% (513) |
| 2015-16 | 626 | 25 | 25.0:1 | 88% (554) |
| 2010-11 | 585 | N/A | N/A | 87% (507) |
| 2000-01 | 660 | 32 | 20.6:1 | 70% (465) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (592 to 624); teachers up 4% (25 to 26).
About Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary
The public elementary school Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary is located in Hanford, California. Its enrollment is 624 students, spread over kindergarten through 6. That compares with an average of about 465 students for elementary schools in California.
The district, Hanford Elementary, has 5,460 students enrolled across 12 schools.
The share of students at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary who are Hispanic is 83%. The remaining students are 7% White, 4% Asian, 3% Black, and 3% multiracial. Among people living in Kings County, the Hispanic share is about 58%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 30%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 24.0:1. The school has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 24.0:1 compares with an average of 22.3:1 for elementary schools in California. Federal data show 79% of students (491) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among California public elementary schools, Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary outscored 95%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary outperforms its prediction by 20.9 points. The model expects 33.4% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in California; the school's rate is 54.3%.
Census data for Kings County show the median household earns about $70,995 a year, roughly 14% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary, Kings County has 67 public schools.
Hanford Elementary Community Day is less than a tenth of a mile away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 34.9%; Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary's is 54.3%, ranking 1st of 5.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Small, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 630 to 624, a small change.
People can post here about special education services, counseling, and support programs and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Kings County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
153,298
Census ACS
Median income
$70,995
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
14%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
67
28,742 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hanford Elementary
- Monroe ElementaryElementary · 611 students
- John F. Kennedy Junior HighMiddle · 531 students
- Joseph M. SimasElementary · 514 students
- Woodrow Wilson Junior HighMiddle · 505 students
- Jefferson AcademyElementary · 501 students
- Roosevelt ElementaryElementary · 490 students
Other schools in Hanford
- Hanford HighHigh · 1,498 students
- Hanford West HighHigh · 1,331 students
- Sierra Pacific HighHigh · 1,183 students
- Kings Valley Academy IICombined · 1,090 students
- Kings River-Hardwick ElementaryElementary · 860 students
- Frontier ElementaryElementary · 619 students
Other Martin Luther King Junior Elementary schools
14 other US public schools in 9 states are named Martin Luther King Junior Elementary. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 15.
- Martin Luther King Jr. ElementarySanta Ana, CA · 457 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. ElementaryEl Centro, CA · 445 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. ElementaryRichmond, CA · 375 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. ElementaryOakland, CA · 296 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. ElementaryLos Angeles, CA · 278 students
Nearby schools
- Hanford Elementary Community Day0.1 mi · 12
- Roosevelt Elementary0.8 mi · 490
- Lincoln Elementary0.9 mi · 392
- Kings Valley Academy II1.4 mi · 1,090
- Crossroads Charter Academy1.4 mi · 141
- Hanford West High1.7 mi · 1,331
Frequently asked questions
About Martin Luther King Jr. ElementaryHow large is Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary?
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary enrolls approximately 624 students in grades KG-06.
Is Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary is approximately 24.0:1 (26 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary?
At Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary, the student body is approximately 7% White, 83% Hispanic, 3% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary public or private?
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Hanford Elementary.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.