Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr., a small elementary campus in Sacramento, California, overseen by Sacramento City Unified, serves 357 students, covering grades K through 6. That puts it 23% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Sacramento City Unified runs 73 schools in total, collectively educating 37,657 students. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Martin Luther King Jr. lists that 38% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 18% Black, 17% Asian, 15% White, 10% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, Martin Luther King Jr. logs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Martin Luther King Jr. tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Martin Luther King Jr. is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 42.6%; Martin Luther King Jr. posts 24.9%, -17.7 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, Sacramento County reports that median household income runs about $92,175, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Martin Luther King Jr. is one campus in the mix.

School of Engineering & Sciences is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Martin Luther King Jr.. On composite proficiency, Martin Luther King Jr. comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.1%.

Martin Luther King Jr. operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 22%: 458 students in 2018 compared to 357 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 26% to 18%.

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