King Jr Martin Luther ES

King Jr Martin Luther ES is an elementary campus of modestly sized scale in Las Vegas, Nevada, part of Clark County, serveing 349 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Nevada's public schools average about 480 students each, so King Jr Martin Luther ES sits 27% below that benchmark.

Across the 375 schools in Clark County (301,622 students total), King Jr Martin Luther ES accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, King Jr Martin Luther ES logs that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 13% Black, 7% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Clark County as a whole is about 32% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, King Jr Martin Luther ES has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.5:1. The state averages around 18.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at King Jr Martin Luther ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, King Jr Martin Luther ES falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 32.5%; this one comes in at 15.9%, -16.6 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Clark County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $76,472 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Clark County runs 462 public schools (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students), of which King Jr Martin Luther ES is one.

The closest other public school is Mountain View ES, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around King Jr Martin Luther ES. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts King Jr Martin Luther ES at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 27.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at King Jr Martin Luther ES has contracted 35%, going from 533 students in 2018 to 349 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 today.

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