Dr ML King Jr Literary&Fine Arts

Dr ML King Jr Literary&Fine Arts operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in Evanston, Illinois, one of the schools within Evanston CCSD 65. Current enrollment sits at 421 students spanning grades K through 8.

Within Evanston CCSD 65, which oversees 16 schools and 6,136 students, Dr ML King Jr Literary&Fine Arts is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Dr ML King Jr Literary&Fine Arts records that the largest single group is Black at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 29% White, 13% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Dr ML King Jr Literary&Fine Arts sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.6%; this one delivers 52.8%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Cook County) shows that median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Dr ML King Jr Literary&Fine Arts is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Joseph E Hill Education Center, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Dr ML King Jr Literary&Fine Arts comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dr ML King Jr Literary&Fine Arts has contracted 22%, going from 541 students in 2018 to 421 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 33% to 38% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 in 2025.

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