Martin Luther King Jr. School

Martin Luther King Jr. School operates as a substantial elementary campus in JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, operated by Jersey City Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 752 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 86% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Jersey City Public Schools runs 39 schools in total, collectively educating 24,151 students. Martin Luther King Jr. School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Martin Luther King Jr. School reports that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 20% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 8% Black. By comparison, Hudson County as a whole is about 32% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Hudson County (around 68%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Martin Luther King Jr. School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.9%; this one delivers 33.9%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hudson County indicate median household income runs about $91,795, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Martin Luther King Jr. School is one of 130 public schools in Hudson County (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students).

Kindle Education Public Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Martin Luther King Jr. School. On composite proficiency, Martin Luther King Jr. School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.

Martin Luther King Jr. School operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Martin Luther King Jr. School's enrollment has contracted 16% since 2018, when it stood at 898 (now 752). The White share of enrollment climbed from 40% to 51% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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