Martin Luther King Elementary School

Located at 285 TINGLEY LANE, in EDISON, New Jersey, Martin Luther King Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary school that works with 591 students (grades K through 5), run under Edison Township School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Martin Luther King Elementary School sits 46% larger than that benchmark.

Edison Township School District comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 16,617 students; Martin Luther King Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Martin Luther King Elementary School lists that 82% of students identify as Asian, making the school strongly Asian-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 6% Black, 5% Hispanic, 5% White, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

In terms of school funding signals, Martin Luther King Elementary School lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Middlesex County's rate of about 42%.

After controlling for student poverty, Martin Luther King Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 58.1%; this one delivers 73.8%, a residual of +15.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $111,549 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Middlesex County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), Martin Luther King Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

John Adams Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Martin Luther King Elementary School at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 62.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Martin Luther King Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 697 (now 591). Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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