Dr. Martin Luther King Middle School

Located at 401-411 Brunswick Ave, in Trenton, New Jersey, Dr. Martin Luther King Middle School is a reasonably sized middle school that works with 650 students (grades 7 through 8), operated by Trenton Public School District.

Trenton Public School District comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 13,549 students; Dr. Martin Luther King Middle School is among them.

On demographics, Dr. Martin Luther King Middle School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 32% Black. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Dr. Martin Luther King Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Mercer County (around 48%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Dr. Martin Luther King Middle School is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 24.6%; Dr. Martin Luther King Middle School posts 6.6%, -18.1 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Mercer County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $100,645 per year, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Mercer County runs 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), of which Dr. Martin Luther King Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Luis Munoz-Rivera Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dr. Martin Luther King Middle School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dr. Martin Luther King Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 8.7%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

On this page, members of the Dr. Martin Luther King Middle School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.