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Enrollment
897
Middle
DISTRICT 686 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MANATEE·NCES 120123001245
MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL
600 75TH ST NW, BRADENTON, FL 34209 · (941) 798-6820 · Manatee County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL897 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 44% of Florida public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.8:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
588 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 293 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 319 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 285 | 32% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
46.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.4pp since 2023
Math
51.1%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 46 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 Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.3% | 51.1% |
| 2023-24 | 43.0% | 48.4% |
% 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
47.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL
MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (47.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 897 | 65.6% | 47.9% |
| PAUL R. SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL HOLIDAY | 830 | 64.0% | 36.8% |
| LAKE WEIR MIDDLE SCHOOL SUMMERFIELD | 1,141 | 66.8% | 39.6% |
| FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL OCALA | 918 | 63.3% | 39.7% |
| SOUTHPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL PORT ST LUCIE | 872 | 63.9% | 53.7% |
| SEBASTIAN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL SEBASTIAN | 775 | 61.4% | 57.8% |
Matched among Florida middle 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 MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Manatee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.9% | #354 of 560 | #7 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.1% | #356 of 560 ▼ 10 | #7 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.3% | #374 of 560 ▼ 27 | #6 of 10 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 897 | #222 of 584 | #4 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.1:1 | #258 of 547 | #4 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.8% | #117 of 553 | #2 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.6% | #104 of 565 | #4 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.5% | #142 of 379 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle 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
897
-75 (-8%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 1,099
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
was 18.0:1
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 | 897 | 47 | 19.1:1 | 66% (588) |
| 2023-24 | 872 | 51 | 17.1:1 | 65% (565) |
| 2022-23 | 848 | 48 | 17.7:1 | 63% (538) |
| 2020-21 | 972 | 54 | 18.0:1 | 75% (731) |
| 2017-18 | 1,101 | 60 | 18.4:1 | 68% (745) |
| 2015-16 | 1,098 | 58 | 18.9:1 | 66% (727) |
| 2010-11 | 1,064 | 54 | 19.7:1 | 53% (564) |
| 2000-01 | 1,144 | 60 | 19.1:1 | 20% (232) |
| 1990-91 | 1,099 | 52 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL
This page covers MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL, a medium-sized middle-grades school in BRADENTON, Florida. The latest federal count shows 897 students in grades 6 through 8.
MANATEE serves 54,215 students across 80 schools.
MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 42%. Other students are 36% Hispanic, 16% Black, and 5% multiracial. By comparison, Manatee County residents are about 72% White. The chance that two students picked at random at MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 67%.
MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL counts 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 19.1 students for each one. Across middle schools in Florida, the average ratio is about 19.6:1. About 66% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Manatee County is 51%.
allk12 grades MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL a C+. The grade compares the school only with Florida public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL is 48.3%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 47.9%.
Federal survey data for Manatee County show that median household income is about $78,457, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL is among the 86 public schools in Manatee County.
The school nearest to MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL is PALMA SOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at a distance of about 0.4 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL is 6th among 8 schools close by.
The NCES locale for MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL 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.
MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL saw enrollment fall 8% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. The ratio was 18.0:1 in 2020-21 and 19.1:1 in 2024-25.
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Manatee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
429,792
Census ACS
Median income
$78,457
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
54,208 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MANATEE
- LAKEWOOD RANCH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,422 students
- PARRISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,266 students
- PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,185 students
- MANATEE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSHigh · 2,051 students
- MANATEE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,998 students
- BRADEN RIVER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,705 students
Other schools in BRADENTON
- LAKEWOOD RANCH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,422 students
- MANATEE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,998 students
- BRADEN RIVER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,705 students
- SOUTHEAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,638 students
- TEAM SUCCESS A SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCECombined · 1,441 students
- BAYSHORE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,400 students
Nearby schools
- PALMA SOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 396
- IDA M. STEWART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 381
- OASIS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 49
- JESSIE P. MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.3 mi · 586
- PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS2.3 mi · 56
- SEA BREEZE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 502
Frequently asked questions
About MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 897 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 19.1:1 (47 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 42% White, 36% Hispanic, 16% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
MARTHA B. KING MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by MANATEE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.