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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 this year?
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Enrollment
754
Elementary
DISTRICT 480 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASSAIC CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341254004844
Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6
85 Hamilton Ave., Passaic, NJ 07055 · (973) 470-5506 · Passaic County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL754 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
10.5:1
72 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
750 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 161 | 21% |
| Kindergarten | 68 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 7% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 61 | 8% |
| Grade 7 | 65 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 49 | 6% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 39% larger than its 8th grade class (49).
Student demographics
14%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 12% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6→Passaic High School No. 12
Based on grade levels within Passaic City School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
22.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . +9.7pp since 2023
Math
7.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . +0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 7 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.2% | 7.0% |
| 2023-24 | 12.5% | 6.2% |
% 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
10.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
11.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 10% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 12% 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 Jr. School No. 6
Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6's state test result (10.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 this school | 754 | 99.5% | 10.3% |
| Broad Street School BRIDGETON | 784 | 95.0% | 10.8% |
| William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11 Passaic | 805 | 99.6% | 15.3% |
| Mahatma Gandhi School Number 25 Passaic | 903 | 99.1% | 7.8% |
| Blanquita B. Valenti Community School New Brunswick | 810 | 93.7% | 23.7% |
| Roosevelt Elementary School NEW BRUNSWICK | 597 | 97.0% | 14.2% |
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 Jr. School No. 6 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Passaic County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 10.3% | #1,251 of 1,290 | #76 of 87 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 7.0% | #1,292 of 1,319 ▲ 4 | #75 of 87 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.2% | #1,211 of 1,319 ▲ 61 | #71 of 87 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 754 | #81 of 1,562 | #8 of 100 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #492 of 1,390 | #23 of 89 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.2% | #1,347 of 1,392 | #78 of 89 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.5% | #6 of 1,481 | #6 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -33.6% | #38 of 798 | #8 of 66 |
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
754
-121 (-14%) vs 2020
+6% since 1990-91, when it was 710
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
was 10.2:1
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 | 754 | 71.6 | 10.5:1 | 99% (750) |
| 2023-24 | 720 | 71 | 10.1:1 | 99% (714) |
| 2022-23 | 682 | 73 | 9.3:1 | 99% (678) |
| 2020-21 | 875 | 86 | 10.2:1 | 99% (868) |
| 2017-18 | 1,136 | 77.6 | 14.6:1 | 99% (1,127) |
| 2015-16 | 1,133 | 86 | 13.2:1 | 99% (1,124) |
| 2010-11 | 1,155 | 66 | 17.5:1 | 94% (1,086) |
| 2000-01 | 782 | 53 | 14.8:1 | 98% (765) |
| 1990-91 | 710 | 42 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6.
Since 2017-18: students down 34% (1,136 to 754); teachers down 8% (77.6 to 71.6).
About Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6
Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 is a large elementary school in Passaic, New Jersey. The school's enrollment of 754 students covers pre-K through 8. Enrollment is 86% higher than the average for elementary schools in New Jersey, which is about 405.
The 19 schools in Passaic City School District enroll 11,877 students altogether, Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 among them.
The student body at Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 is 92% Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 6% Black. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 44%. Pick two students at random and there is a 14% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its teaching staff equals 71.6 full-time positions, a ratio of 10.5:1. On average, elementary schools in New Jersey have 11.4:1, compared with 10.5:1 here. Around 99% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. The 61% average for public schools in Passaic County is 38 points lower.
Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 is graded D by allk12, scoring above 11% of New Jersey public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
In New Jersey, Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 10.3% actual against a predicted 11.7%.
Among Passaic County residents, the median household income is $87,522, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Besides Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6, Passaic County has 154 other public schools.
The closest other public school is Sonia Sotomayor School #21, about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 10.3% is below the 22.6% average for nearby schools.
Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
The school enrolled 754 students in 2024-25, 121 fewer than the 875 it had in 2020-21.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Passaic County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
521,012
Census ACS
Median income
$87,522
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
155
83,237 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Passaic City School District
- Passaic High School No. 12High · 2,484 students
- Mahatma Gandhi School Number 25Elementary · 903 students
- William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11Elementary · 805 students
- Mario Drago School No. 3Elementary · 776 students
- Passaic Gifted and Talented Academy School No. 20Middle · 742 students
- Passaic Preparatory AcademyHigh · 710 students
Other schools in Passaic
- Passaic High School No. 12High · 2,484 students
- Passaic Arts and Science Charter SchoolCombined · 2,175 students
- Mahatma Gandhi School Number 25Elementary · 903 students
- William B. Cruise Memorial School No. 11Elementary · 805 students
- Mario Drago School No. 3Elementary · 776 students
- Passaic Gifted and Talented Academy School No. 20Middle · 742 students
Nearby schools
- Sonia Sotomayor School #210.2 mi · 499
- Passaic Gifted and Talented Academy School No. 200.3 mi · 742
- Casimir Pulaski School No. 80.3 mi · 77
- Passaic Arts and Science Charter School0.4 mi · 2,175
- Etta Gero School No. 90.4 mi · 352
- Hope Academy0.4 mi · 59
Frequently asked questions
About Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6How many students attend Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6?
Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 enrolls approximately 754 students in grades PK-08.
Is Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 an elementary, middle, or high school?
Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 have?
Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 employs 72 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6?
Student demographics at Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 are roughly 1% White, 92% Hispanic, 6% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 in?
Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 is part of Passaic City School District.
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