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Enrollment
513
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PATERSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341269005916
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex
851 E 28TH STREET, PATERSON, NJ 07513 · (973) 321-0300 · Passaic County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL513 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 1% of New Jersey 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.
- ·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 New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
339 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 41%
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 | 52 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 49 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 46 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 64 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 20% smaller than its 8th grade class (64).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 71% · 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
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
23.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.4pp since 2023
Math
6.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 23 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 New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.0% | 6.3% |
| 2023-24 | 19.6% | 5.3% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
11.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.0%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 11% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 30% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex's state test result (11.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex this school | 513 | 66.1% | 11.0% |
| Alexander Hamilton Academy PATERSON | 439 | 67.7% | 21.8% |
| School 13 PATERSON | 499 | 69.9% | 8.5% |
| Cedarbrook Elementary School PLAINFIELD | 671 | 69.2% | 21.0% |
| School 10 PATERSON | 474 | 62.0% | 6.2% |
| Emerson Community School PLAINFIELD | 414 | 72.7% | 29.4% |
Matched among New Jersey 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 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Passaic County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 11.0% | #1,243 of 1,290 | #74 of 87 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 6.3% | #1,301 of 1,319 ▲ 1 | #79 of 87 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #1,206 of 1,319 ▲ 7 | #70 of 87 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 513 | #377 of 1,562 | #24 of 100 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.6:1 | #510 of 1,390 | #25 of 89 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.9% | #984 of 1,392 | #53 of 89 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.1% | #396 of 1,481 | #48 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.8% | #82 of 798 | #13 of 66 |
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
513
-90 (-15%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 687
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
was 10.2:1
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 | 513 | 48.5 | 10.6:1 | 66% (339) |
| 2023-24 | 505 | 42.5 | 11.9:1 | 59% (297) |
| 2022-23 | 601 | 44.5 | 13.5:1 | 60% (358) |
| 2020-21 | 603 | 59 | 10.2:1 | 54% (326) |
| 2017-18 | 691 | 61 | 11.3:1 | 60% (413) |
| 2015-16 | 850 | 58 | 14.7:1 | 50% (426) |
| 2010-11 | 878 | 53 | 16.6:1 | 93% (816) |
| 2000-01 | 1,301 | 79 | 16.5:1 | 79% (1,029) |
| 1990-91 | 687 | 47 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (691 to 513); teachers down 20% (61 to 48.5).
About Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex serves students in PATERSON, New Jersey, as a mid-sized elementary school. Total enrollment is 513 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 8. Elementary schools in New Jersey have about 405 students on average; enrollment here is 27% higher.
Paterson Public School District is the local district for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex. It runs 43 schools with 21,372 students.
More than half of the students at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex are Hispanic (71%). Other reported shares: 25% Black and 2% Asian. That compares with about 44% Hispanic among all Passaic County residents. The diversity index for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex is 43%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school's 48.5 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.6:1. The average for elementary schools in New Jersey is 11.4:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. At Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex, 66% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex outscored 1%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 19.0 points (11.0% versus 30.0%), a bottom-10% result in New Jersey on BeatsExpectations.
The school's county is Passaic County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $87,522, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Passaic County's 155 public schools enroll about 83,237 students and include Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex.
A public school about 0.3 miles away, School 24, is the closest to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex comes in 5th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 15% decline, from 603 to 513.
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Passaic County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
521,012
Census ACS
Median income
$87,522
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
155
83,237 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Paterson Public School District
- Eastside High SchoolHigh · 2,073 students
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- Charles J. Riley/ School 9Elementary · 682 students
Other schools in PATERSON
- Eastside High SchoolHigh · 2,073 students
- John F. Kennedy High SchoolHigh · 1,846 students
- Paterson Charter School for Science and TechnologyCombined · 1,708 students
- College Achieve Paterson Charter SchoolCombined · 1,688 students
- Paterson Arts and Science Charter SchoolCombined · 1,330 students
- Joseph A. Taub SchoolMiddle · 976 students
Nearby schools
- School 240.3 mi · 668
- School 200.4 mi · 343
- School 160.5 mi · 813
- New Roberto Clemente0.6 mi · 473
- Anna Iandoli Early Learning Center0.6 mi · 99
- School 130.6 mi · 499
Frequently asked questions
About Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational ComplexHow large is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex enrolls approximately 513 students in grades PK-08.
Is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex an elementary, middle, or high school?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex?
Approximately 10.6:1 students per teacher at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex.
How diverse is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex reports a student body of 1% White, 71% Hispanic, 25% Black, 2% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex in?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex is part of Paterson Public School District.
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