Martin Luther King Leadership Academy

Martin Luther King Leadership Academy is a small elementary school for students in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan. It teaches 299 students in pre-K through 8.

In Grand Rapids Public Schools, 50 schools enroll a combined 13,903 students.

At Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, 72% of students are Black. It is also 17% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 5% White. For comparison, the population of Kent County is roughly 10% Black. The diversity index for Martin Luther King Leadership Academy is 44%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

The school has 16.2 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 18.5 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Michigan have an average ratio of 15.8:1. The school reported 92% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The rate at public schools in Kent County averages 47%, lower than here.

Looking at the county, Kent County, the median household earns about $82,631 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 41%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Counting Martin Luther King Leadership Academy, Kent County has 239 public schools.

Of the public schools around it, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy is closest to Grand Rapids Child Discovery Center, about 0.5 miles away. Martin Luther King Leadership Academy has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Mid-size, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Enrollment fell 3% over 4 years, reaching 299 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 14.6:1 to 18.5:1 over the same years.

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