Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School is a junior high of tiny scale in ASBURY PARK, New Jersey, one of the schools within Asbury Park School District, works with 195 students in grades 7 through 8. That puts it 66% below the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 578 students.

Asbury Park School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,362 students; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School is among them.

On demographics, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School shows that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 48% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Monmouth County as a whole is about 13% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Monmouth County's rate of about 29%.

With demographic context factored in, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 23.8%; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School posts 6.0%, -17.8 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Monmouth County put median household income runs about $124,845, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Monmouth County runs 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students), of which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Bradley Elementary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 26.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 44%: 349 students in 2018 compared to 195 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 56% to 48%. Class-load math has tightened: from 8.7:1 in 2018 to 6.8:1 in 2025.

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