Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary

Set in Los Angeles, California, Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary is a compact K-5 school, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. It works with 278 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 40% leaner than typical.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary shows that 80% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 15% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.6%; this one delivers 19.7%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Foshay Learning Center, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 39%: 456 students in 2018 compared to 278 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 27% to 15% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.