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Enrollment
768
Elementary
DISTRICT 424 · STATE 315
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KANSAS CITY 33·NCES 291640003082
M. L. KING ELEMENTARY
4848 Woodland Avenue, KANSAS CITY, MO 64110 · (816) 418-2475 · Jackson County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL768 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 3% of Missouri public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Missouri public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
768 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 54%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 196 | 26% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 106 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 70 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 6% larger than its 6th grade class (70).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 52% · 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
MAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
9.7%
MO avg 44.9% . +0.8pp since 2021
Math
5.7%
MO avg 43.8% . -1.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 10 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 45 and 44. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Advanced | Proficient | Basic | Below Basic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 2.3% | 7.4% | 31.9% | 58.3% |
Share of tested students at each MAP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
MAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 9.7% | 5.7% |
| 2023-24 | 9.4% | 4.9% |
| 2022-23 | 10.7% | 9.8% |
| 2021-22 | 8.9% | 7.5% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAP. 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
8.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.4%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 8% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% typical for Missouri 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 Missouri'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 ELEMENTARY
M. L. KING ELEMENTARY's state test result (8.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| M. L. KING ELEMENTARY this school | 768 | 100.0% | 8.0% |
| PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY KANSAS CITY | 494 | 100.0% | 8.5% |
| KIPP ENDEAVOR ACADEMY Kansas City | 665 | 100.0% | 6.7% |
| ERVIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KANSAS CITY | 427 | 100.0% | 17.4% |
| B. BANNEKER ELEMENTARY KANSAS CITY | 487 | 100.0% | 7.1% |
| WARFORD ELEMENTARY KANSAS CITY | 407 | 100.0% | 19.1% |
Matched among Missouri 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 ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Missouri | In Jackson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 8.0% | #975 of 1,002 | #121 of 126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 5.7% | #993 of 1,019 ▲ 6 | #123 of 126 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 9.7% | #990 of 1,018 ▼ 2 | #122 of 126 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.5pp | #372 of 943 | #57 of 124 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 768 | #15 of 1,294 | #2 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #824 of 950 | #104 of 124 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.5% | #310 of 953 | #83 of 124 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #118 of 1,165 | #41 of 136 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +22.9% | #45 of 251 | #8 of 37 |
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
768
+293 (+62%) vs 2020
+160% since 2010-11, when it was 295
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 9.7:1
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 | 768 | 51.1 | 15.0:1 | 100% (768) |
| 2023-24 | 746 | 40.1 | 18.6:1 | 100% (746) |
| 2022-23 | 665 | 38.3 | 17.4:1 | 100% (662) |
| 2020-21 | 475 | 49 | 9.7:1 | 99% (472) |
| 2017-18 | 625 | 40.2 | 15.6:1 | 100% (625) |
| 2015-16 | 814 | 54 | 15.1:1 | 100% (811) |
| 2010-11 | 295 | 25 | 11.8:1 | 99% (292) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for M. L. KING ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students up 23% (625 to 768); teachers up 27% (40.2 to 51.1).
About M. L. KING ELEMENTARY
M. L. KING ELEMENTARY is a public elementary school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri. School enrollment was 768 students in 2024-25, in pre-K through 6. The average among elementary schools in Missouri is roughly 315 students; this school is 144% larger than that.
KANSAS CITY 33 is the district for M. L. KING ELEMENTARY. It has 31 schools and 15,079 students.
Roughly 66% of students at M. L. KING ELEMENTARY are Black. Enrollment also includes 20% Hispanic, 6% White, and 5% multiracial. Among people living in Jackson County, the Black share is about 22%. M. L. KING ELEMENTARY's diversity index is 51%, against a US figure of 70%.
Its teaching staff equals 51.1 full-time positions, a ratio of 15.0:1. That is higher than the 12.4:1 average for elementary schools in Missouri. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 100%. The average for public schools in Jackson County is 60%.
The allk12 Grade for M. L. KING ELEMENTARY is F. Compared with Missouri public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 3% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On BeatsExpectations, M. L. KING ELEMENTARY is 14.5 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Missouri schools.
Census Bureau estimates for Jackson County show that the median household income is $68,577, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. There are 244 public schools in Jackson County, enrolling about 105,714 students in all.
PASEO ACAD. OF PERFORMING ARTS is the nearest neighboring public school, less than a tenth of a mile away. Within five miles of M. L. KING ELEMENTARY, there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 8.0% is below the 61.3% average for nearby schools.
In the federal locale system, M. L. KING ELEMENTARY is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal records list enrollment at M. L. KING ELEMENTARY as 475 in 2020-21 and 768 in 2024-25. A change that size can reflect a shift in the grades the school serves as well as a change in students. The ratio was 9.7:1 in 2020-21 and 15.0:1 in 2024-25.
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Jackson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
719,976
Census ACS
Median income
$68,577
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
244
105,714 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in KANSAS CITY 33
- EAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,155 students
- LINCOLN COLLEGE PREP.High · 997 students
- NORTHEAST HIGHHigh · 732 students
- PASEO ACAD. OF PERFORMING ARTSHigh · 669 students
- NORTHEAST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 607 students
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACADEMYElementary · 594 students
Other schools in KANSAS CITY
- STALEY HIGHHigh · 2,091 students
- PARK HILL HIGHHigh · 1,947 students
- OAK PARK HIGHHigh · 1,755 students
- NORTH KANSAS CITY HIGHHigh · 1,719 students
- RUSKIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,299 students
- WINNETONKA HIGHHigh · 1,238 students
Nearby schools
- PASEO ACAD. OF PERFORMING ARTS0.1 mi · 669
- HOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY ELEM0.8 mi · 391
- FRONTIER SCHL OF EXCELLENCE-M1.1 mi · 74
- FRONTIER SCHL OF EXCELLENCE-U1.1 mi · 160
- DeLaSalle Charter High School1.4 mi · 196
- GENESIS SCHOOL INC.1.4 mi · 180
Frequently asked questions
About M. L. KING ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at M. L. KING ELEMENTARY?
M. L. KING ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 768 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does M. L. KING ELEMENTARY serve?
M. L. KING ELEMENTARY serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at M. L. KING ELEMENTARY?
Approximately 15.0:1 students per teacher at M. L. KING ELEMENTARY.
How diverse is M. L. KING ELEMENTARY?
M. L. KING ELEMENTARY reports a student body of 6% White, 20% Hispanic, 66% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees M. L. KING ELEMENTARY?
M. L. KING ELEMENTARY is overseen by KANSAS CITY 33 in Jackson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.