Martin Luther King Jr. Middle

As a moderately sized middle-grades school in Madera, California, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle works with 865 students from grades 7 through 8, one of the schools within Madera Unified. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 31% above typical.

Madera Unified runs 28 schools in total, collectively educating 19,922 students. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle lists that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Madera County (around 81%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 15.4%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Madera County) records that median household earnings sit near $76,627, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Madera County runs 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,251 students), of which Martin Luther King Jr. Middle is one.

Virginia Lee Rose Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 22.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle has contracted 12%, going from 982 students in 2018 to 865 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 today.

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