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How has DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
385
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018000243
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY
591 NW 31ST AVE, LAUDERHILL, FL 33311 · (754) 322-6550 · Broward County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL385 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 34% of Florida public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
299 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 50%
Community
1
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 | 69 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 28% larger than its 5th grade class (54).
Student demographics
14%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 70% · 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
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
40.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +8.6pp since 2023
Math
65.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +9.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.4% | 65.0% |
| 2023-24 | 31.9% | 55.8% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
44.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 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 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY's state test result (44.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY this school | 385 | 77.7% | 44.8% |
| WALKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT LAUDERDALE | 408 | 79.9% | 39.6% |
| LARKDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAUDERHILL | 399 | 74.7% | 49.0% |
| CHARLES R DREW K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 461 | 78.5% | 40.1% |
| SUNLAND PARK ACADEMY FORT LAUDERDALE | 353 | 73.4% | 51.5% |
| ANDREW A. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 459 | 76.9% | 44.2% |
Matched among Florida 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 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.8% | #1,589 of 2,136 | #156 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #873 of 2,149 ▲ 254 | #93 of 191 ▲ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.4% | #1,757 of 2,149 ▲ 209 | #179 of 191 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 385 | #1,806 of 2,267 | #154 of 199 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #1,132 of 2,077 | #38 of 166 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 13.6% | #2,004 of 2,108 | #178 of 181 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.7% | #215 of 2,188 | #13 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.3% | #481 of 1,374 | #71 of 157 |
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
385
-97 (-20%) vs 2020
-59% since 1990-91, when it was 939
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 17.2:1
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 | 385 | 24 | 16.0:1 | 78% (299) |
| 2023-24 | 493 | 25 | 19.7:1 | 85% (420) |
| 2022-23 | 488 | 27 | 18.1:1 | 92% (447) |
| 2020-21 | 482 | 28 | 17.2:1 | 89% (431) |
| 2017-18 | 483 | 34 | 14.2:1 | 96% (462) |
| 2015-16 | 413 | 28 | 14.8:1 | 96% (397) |
| 2010-11 | 427 | 30 | 14.2:1 | 91% (390) |
| 2000-01 | 865 | 42 | 20.6:1 | 93% (804) |
| 1990-91 | 939 | 46 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY.
About DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY is a small elementary school located in LAUDERHILL, Florida. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 385 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Florida enroll about 604 students on average.
BROWARD has 325 schools and 243,591 students, and DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY is one of those schools.
At DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY, 93% of students are Black. The school is also 6% Hispanic. That is higher than the 28% Black share among all Broward County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 14%.
Staffing at DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY comes to 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.0:1. Elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1, 1.4 more students per teacher than here. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY counts 78% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Broward County average 38%.
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 34% of Florida public elementary schools.
Schools in Florida with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 42.3%. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY scores 44.8%.
In the wider Broward County area, median household income comes to about $77,633, roughly 37% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Broward County's 338 public schools enroll about 244,502 students and include DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY.
Measured in a straight line, BROWARD ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.6 miles from DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Of 7 schools in the immediate area with test results, DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY ranks 4th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 385, from 482 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher dropped from 17.2 to 16.0 over 4 years.
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Broward County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,977,129
Census ACS
Median income
$77,633
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
338
244,502 students
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Frequently asked questions
About DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMYHow many students attend DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY?
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY enrolls approximately 385 students in grades PK-05.
Is DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY an elementary, middle, or high school?
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY have?
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.0:1.
What is the student diversity at DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY?
Student demographics at DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY are roughly 0% White, 6% Hispanic, 93% Black, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY?
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MONTESSORI ACADEMY is overseen by BROWARD in Broward County.
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