Enrollment
322
Elementary
DISTRICT 372 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·URBANA SD 116·NCES 173996004012
M L King Jr Elementary School
1108 Fairview Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 · (217) 384-3675 · Champaign County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL322 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% of Illinois public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
274 students
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (59).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 69% · 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
QUIET COMMUNITY
Be the first to start a discussion at M L King Jr Elementary School.
START A DISCUSSIONTest scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
12.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +7.2pp since 2023
Math
9.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 13 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 9 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 12.5% | 9.2% |
| 2023-24 | 5.3% | 4.6% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. 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
10.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 10% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% typical for Illinois 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 Illinois'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 M L King Jr Elementary School
M L King Jr Elementary School's state test result (10.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| M L King Jr Elementary School this school | 322 | 85.1% | 10.5% |
| Earl H Hanson Elementary School Rock Island | 201 | 88.6% | 30.6% |
| McCutcheon Elementary School Chicago | 326 | 85.6% | 22.6% |
| Frances Willard Elementary School Rock Island | 312 | 89.1% | 26.6% |
| Asian Human Srvcs-Passage Chrtr Chicago | 379 | 92.3% | 17.2% |
| Horace Mann ELC Rock Island | 387 | 80.4% | N/A |
Matched among Illinois 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 M L King Jr Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Champaign County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 10.5% | #1,871 of 1,925 | #27 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.2% | #1,939 of 2,077 ▼ 51 | #25 of 30 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 12.5% | #2,040 of 2,077 ▲ 4 | #26 of 30 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 322 | #1,416 of 2,419 | #21 of 37 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #852 of 2,035 | #11 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.4% | #432 of 2,042 | #16 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.1% | #398 of 2,132 | #6 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.9% | #436 of 615 | #7 of 10 |
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
322
+69 (+27%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 361
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 | 322 | 25 | 12.9:1 | 85% (274) |
| 2023-24 | 307 | 21.4 | 14.3:1 | 88% (269) |
| 2022-23 | 297 | 18.1 | 16.4:1 | 92% (272) |
| 2020-21 | 253 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 307 | 29.3 | 10.5:1 | 89% (274) |
| 2015-16 | 297 | 33 | 9.0:1 | 88% (262) |
| 2010-11 | 292 | 29 | 10.1:1 | 88% (256) |
| 2000-01 | 399 | 31 | 12.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 361 | 22 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for M L King Jr Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (307 to 322); teachers down 15% (29.3 to 25).
About M L King Jr Elementary School
M L King Jr Elementary School is a small elementary school in Urbana, Illinois, administered by Urbana SD 116. It enrolled 322 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
M L King Jr Elementary School is one school in a 9-school district, Urbana SD 116, which enrolls 4,658 students.
M L King Jr Elementary School is 55% Black by enrollment. Next come 19% Asian, 12% White, 7% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. By comparison, Champaign County residents are about 14% Black. The school's diversity index is 63%, meaning two students picked at random have a 63% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Its 25 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 12.9:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. The school's lunch program data list 85% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The rate at public schools in Champaign County averages 53%, lower than here.
Measured against Illinois public elementary schools, M L King Jr Elementary School receives an F. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Compared with Illinois schools that have similar shares of low-income students, M L King Jr Elementary School's results are 11.9 points below predicted: 10.5% against 22.4%.
M L King Jr Elementary School is located in Champaign County, where the median household income is $63,683, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Besides M L King Jr Elementary School, Champaign County has 65 other public schools.
Washington Elementary School is the public school closest to M L King Jr Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: M L King Jr Elementary School ranks 7th of 7 nearby schools, at 10.5% versus a 25.1% average.
Locale data from NCES put M L King Jr Elementary School inside a principal city with a population under 100,000 (City: Small).
Enrollment has grown by 69 students since 2020-21, to 322.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at M L King Jr Elementary School. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Champaign County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
208,741
Census ACS
Median income
$63,683
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
66
25,919 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Urbana SD 116
- Urbana High SchoolHigh · 1,176 students
- Urbana Middle SchoolMiddle · 877 students
- Yankee Ridge Multilingual SchoolElementary · 482 students
- Yankee Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 461 students
- Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Leal Elementary SchoolElementary · 373 students
Other schools in Urbana
- Urbana High SchoolHigh · 1,176 students
- Urbana Middle SchoolMiddle · 877 students
- Yankee Ridge Multilingual SchoolElementary · 482 students
- Yankee Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 461 students
- Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Leal Elementary SchoolElementary · 373 students
Nearby schools
- Washington Elementary School0.4 mi · 265
- University of Illinois High School0.5 mi · 319
- Leal Elementary School1.1 mi · 373
- Champaign Early Chldhd Cntr1.1 mi · 288
- Stratton Elementary School1.2 mi · 454
- Urbana High School1.4 mi · 1,176
Frequently asked questions
About M L King Jr Elementary SchoolHow large is M L King Jr Elementary School?
M L King Jr Elementary School enrolls approximately 322 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does M L King Jr Elementary School serve?
M L King Jr Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at M L King Jr Elementary School?
Approximately 12.9:1 students per teacher at M L King Jr Elementary School.
How diverse is M L King Jr Elementary School?
M L King Jr Elementary School reports a student body of 12% White, 7% Hispanic, 55% Black, 19% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is M L King Jr Elementary School public or private?
M L King Jr Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Urbana SD 116.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.