Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 11 points.
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 36% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
Located at 1307 Shurling Dr, in Macon, Georgia, Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School is a mid-sized K-5 school that hosts 675 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Bibb County.
Bibb County runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 21,334 students. Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (92%). Other groups include 3% White, 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Bibb County (around 61%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 36.3%; actual is 21.6%, a gap of -14.8 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bibb County indicate median household income runs about $51,234, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. Across Bibb County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,725 students), Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Burdell Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 28.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.
Five-year trend. Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 720 (now 675).
On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
