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How has Martin Luther King Elementary School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
488
Elementary
DISTRICT 521 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PISCATAWAY TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341305003572
Martin Luther King Elementary School
5205 LUDLOW STREET, PISCATAWAY, NJ 08854 · (732) 699-1563 · Middlesex County
GRADES 04–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL488 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 80% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
13.0:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
190 students
DISTRICT 44% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 4 | 264 | 54% |
| Grade 5 | 224 | 46% |
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
70.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +2.5pp since 2023
Math
59.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . +1.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 | 70.1% | 59.5% |
| 2023-24 | 67.6% | 58.2% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
57.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Martin Luther King Elementary School
Martin Luther King Elementary School's state test result (57.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Luther King Elementary School this school | 488 | 38.9% | 57.3% |
| Randolphville Elementary School PISCATAWAY | 465 | 43.7% | 61.5% |
| Knollwood Elementary School PISCATAWAY | 460 | 33.3% | 64.2% |
| James Monroe Elementary School Edison | 537 | 34.6% | 51.2% |
| Piscataway Township Schools Children's Corner Piscataway | 616 | 36.2% | N/A |
| Roosevelt Elementary School SOUTH PLAINFIELD | 472 | 35.6% | 48.1% |
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 Martin Luther King Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.3% | #385 of 1,290 | #34 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.5% | #415 of 1,319 ▼ 3 | #37 of 111 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.1% | #266 of 1,319 ▲ 34 | #17 of 111 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 488 | #431 of 1,562 | #46 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #1,092 of 1,390 | #92 of 120 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.3% | #55 of 1,392 | #18 of 121 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.9% | #725 of 1,481 | #62 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.3% | #644 of 798 | #78 of 84 |
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
488
+15 (+3%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 532
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 488 | 37.5 | 13.0:1 | 39% (190) |
| 2023-24 | 491 | 36 | 13.6:1 | 31% (152) |
| 2022-23 | 484 | 35 | 13.8:1 | 25% (122) |
| 2020-21 | 473 | 39 | 12.1:1 | 27% (127) |
| 2017-18 | 510 | 38.7 | 13.2:1 | 26% (133) |
| 2015-16 | 532 | 37 | 14.4:1 | 25% (134) |
| 2010-11 | 503 | 32 | 15.7:1 | 18% (93) |
| 2000-01 | 538 | 37 | 14.5:1 | 16% (87) |
| 1990-91 | 532 | 32 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Martin Luther King Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (510 to 488); teachers down 3% (38.7 to 37.5).
About Martin Luther King Elementary School
This page covers Martin Luther King Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school in PISCATAWAY, New Jersey. The school enrolls 488 students, from grades 4 through 5. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New Jersey is about 405, so this school runs 20% above that.
Piscataway Township School District is the district for Martin Luther King Elementary School. It has 11 schools and 7,289 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Martin Luther King Elementary School. The largest is Asian students, at 42%. The next largest groups are 20% Black, 18% Hispanic, 14% White, and 5% multiracial. In Middlesex County overall, about 26% of residents are Asian. The school's diversity index is 73%, meaning two students picked at random have a 73% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Martin Luther King Elementary School employs 37.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 13.0:1. This ratio sits 1.6 above the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 39% in 2024-25.
Martin Luther King Elementary School is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 80% of New Jersey public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Martin Luther King Elementary School is 12.5 points above its prediction. Actual: 57.3%. Predicted: 44.9%.
In Middlesex County (population about 871,290), the median household income is $111,549, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Martin Luther King Elementary School is one of 214 public schools in the county.
Conackamack Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles away. Within five miles of Martin Luther King Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 57.3% is above the 51.3% average for nearby schools.
In the federal locale system, Martin Luther King Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment grew 3% from its 2020-21 level of 473.
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Middlesex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
871,290
Census ACS
Median income
$111,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
129,255 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Piscataway Township School District
- Piscataway Township High SchoolHigh · 2,144 students
- Piscataway Township Schools Children's CornerElementary · 616 students
- Grandview Elementary SchoolElementary · 579 students
- Theodore Schor Middle SchoolMiddle · 563 students
- Arbor Elementary SchoolElementary · 528 students
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary SchoolElementary · 513 students
Other schools in PISCATAWAY
- Piscataway Township High SchoolHigh · 2,144 students
- Piscataway Magnet SchoolHigh · 640 students
- Piscataway Township Schools Children's CornerElementary · 616 students
- Grandview Elementary SchoolElementary · 579 students
- Theodore Schor Middle SchoolMiddle · 563 students
- Arbor Elementary SchoolElementary · 528 students
Other Martin Luther King Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Martin Luther King Elementary. Martin Luther King Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 6.
- Martin Luther King Elementary SchoolEDISON, NJ · 591 students
- MARTIN LUTHER KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWYANDANCH, NY · 538 students
- Martin Luther King ElementaryVANCOUVER, WA · 514 students
- Martin Luther King Elem SchoolANN ARBOR, MI · 511 students
- Martin Luther King ElementaryCompton, CA · 336 students
Nearby schools
- Conackamack Middle School0.1 mi · 466
- Knollwood Elementary School0.5 mi · 460
- NuView Academy0.7 mi · 46
- Piscataway Township High School1.0 mi · 2,144
- Piscataway Township Schools Children's Corner1.2 mi · 616
- Randolphville Elementary School1.7 mi · 465
Frequently asked questions
About Martin Luther King Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Martin Luther King Elementary School?
Martin Luther King Elementary School enrolls approximately 488 students in grades 04-05.
What grades does Martin Luther King Elementary School serve?
Martin Luther King Elementary School serves grades 04-05.
How many teachers does Martin Luther King Elementary School have?
Martin Luther King Elementary School employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Martin Luther King Elementary School?
Student demographics at Martin Luther King Elementary School are roughly 14% White, 18% Hispanic, 20% Black, 42% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Martin Luther King Elementary School public or private?
Martin Luther King Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Piscataway Township School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.