Martin Luther King- Jr. Elementary School

Martin Luther King- Jr. Elementary School is an elementary school of medium-sized scale in Albany, Georgia, overseen by Dougherty County, enrolling 537 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Dougherty County, which oversees 22 schools and 13,241 students, Martin Luther King- Jr. Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Martin Luther King- Jr. Elementary School reports that nearly all students (96%) are Black. Beyond that, the school logs 2% multiracial. By comparison, Dougherty County as a whole is about 71% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Martin Luther King- Jr. Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Martin Luther King- Jr. Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 15.1%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Dougherty County shows median household income runs about $49,044, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Martin Luther King- Jr. Elementary School is one of 22 public schools in Dougherty County (combined enrollment of about 13,241 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lamar Reese School of the Arts, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Martin Luther King- Jr. Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 13%: 614 students in 2018 compared to 537 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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