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Enrollment
605
Middle
DISTRICT 933 · STATE 764
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240051001101
Martin Luther King Jr. Middle
4545 Ammendale Rd, Beltsville, MD 20705 · (301) 572-0650 · Prince George's County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL605 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 55% of Maryland 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.
- ABeats 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 Maryland public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 14.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
536 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 54%
Community
5
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 | 202 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 206 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 197 | 33% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 73% · 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
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
47.3%
MD avg 50.6% . +15.6pp since 2023
Math
11.9%
MD avg 34.8% . -1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 16 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.3% | 11.9% |
| 2023-24 | 31.7% | 13.5% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. 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
26.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
21.8%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% typical for Maryland 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 Maryland'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 Martin Luther King Jr. Middle
Martin Luther King Jr. Middle's state test result (26.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Luther King Jr. Middle this school | 605 | 88.6% | 26.1% |
| Thurgood Marshall Middle Temple Hills | 707 | 93.5% | 19.9% |
| G. James Gholson Middle Landover | 603 | 95.2% | 17.8% |
| Benjamin Stoddert Middle Temple Hills | 628 | 94.7% | 20.6% |
| Kenmoor Middle Landover | 1,021 | 93.1% | 36.1% |
| Mace's Lane Middle School Cambridge | 490 | 87.8% | 15.9% |
Matched among Maryland 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 Martin Luther King Jr. Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Prince George's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.1% | #168 of 223 | #8 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.9% | #189 of 223 ▼ 26 | #10 of 24 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.3% | #124 of 223 ▲ 65 | #4 of 24 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 605 | #174 of 230 | #24 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #80 of 225 | #6 of 25 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.3% | #93 of 225 | #1 of 25 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.6% | #21 of 227 | #18 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.6% | #13 of 123 | #3 of 6 |
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
605
-376 (-38%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 701
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 17.5:1
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 | 605 | 44 | 13.8:1 | 89% (536) |
| 2023-24 | 628 | 42 | 14.9:1 | 67% (419) |
| 2022-23 | 911 | 56 | 16.3:1 | 73% (669) |
| 2020-21 | 981 | 56 | 17.5:1 | 64% (626) |
| 2017-18 | 762 | 44 | 17.3:1 | 55% (416) |
| 2015-16 | 659 | 41 | 16.1:1 | 47% (311) |
| 2010-11 | 687 | 51 | 13.5:1 | 44% (302) |
| 2000-01 | 926 | 53 | 17.5:1 | 29% (272) |
| 1990-91 | 701 | 40 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Martin Luther King Jr. Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (762 to 605); teachers unchanged (44 to 44).
About Martin Luther King Jr. Middle
Martin Luther King Jr. Middle is a small middle school located in Beltsville, Maryland. It is open to students in grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 605 students. That is 21% below the average of about 764 students for middle schools in Maryland.
Martin Luther King Jr. Middle is part of Prince George's County Public Schools, where 199 schools serve 132,693 students.
The largest group at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle is Black students, at 46%. The next largest groups are 37% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 5% White, and 3% multiracial. In Prince George's County overall, about 59% of residents are Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 64, compared with 70 nationally.
Martin Luther King Jr. Middle lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 13.8 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 14.3:1 average for middle schools in Maryland. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 89% of the student body. That rate is above the 79% average among public schools in Prince George's County.
Among Maryland public middle schools, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle outscored 55%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle is 4.3 points above its prediction. Actual: 26.1%. Predicted: 21.8%.
Census data for Prince George's County show median household income comes to about $101,798, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. There are 203 public schools in the county, enrolling about 132,693, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle among them.
About 1.2 miles separate Martin Luther King Jr. Middle from the closest public school, Beltsville Academy. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle is 5th of 7 nearby schools with test data.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 605, down from 981 in 2020-21. Students per teacher dropped from 17.5 in 2020-21 to 13.8 in 2024-25.
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Prince George's County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
959,754
Census ACS
Median income
$101,798
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
203
132,693 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Prince George's County Public Schools
- High Point HighHigh · 3,012 students
- Charles Herbert Flowers HighHigh · 2,712 students
- Parkdale HighHigh · 2,588 students
- Bowie HighHigh · 2,580 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt HighHigh · 2,544 students
- Duval HighHigh · 2,522 students
Other schools in Beltsville
- High Point HighHigh · 3,012 students
- Beltsville AcademyElementary · 1,113 students
- Calverton ElementaryElementary · 767 students
- Vansville ElementaryElementary · 677 students
- Frances R Fuchs E C CElementary · 364 students
- James E. DuckworthCombined · 99 students
Other Martin Luther King Junior Middle schools
7 other US public schools in 4 states are named Martin Luther King Junior Middle. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle is the 6th largest of the 8.
- Martin Luther King Jr. MiddleGermantown, MD · 841 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. MiddleOceanside, CA · 1,098 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. MiddleMadera, CA · 865 students
- Martin Luther King Jr MiddleCharlotte, NC · 844 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. MiddleHayward, CA · 669 students
Nearby schools
- Beltsville Academy1.2 mi · 1,113
- Vansville Elementary1.3 mi · 677
- Calverton Elementary1.3 mi · 767
- James E. Duckworth1.7 mi · 99
- High Point High2.0 mi · 3,012
- Galway Elementary2.1 mi · 695
Frequently asked questions
About Martin Luther King Jr. MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle?
Martin Luther King Jr. Middle enrolls approximately 605 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Martin Luther King Jr. Middle serve?
Martin Luther King Jr. Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle?
Approximately 13.8:1 students per teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle?
At Martin Luther King Jr. Middle, the student body is approximately 5% White, 37% Hispanic, 46% Black, 9% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Martin Luther King Jr. Middle public or private?
Martin Luther King Jr. Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Prince George's County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.