Enrollment
424
Elementary
DISTRICT 385 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362601003584
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
918 STANLEY ST, SCHENECTADY, NY 12307 · (518) 881-3680 · Schenectady County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL424 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
360 students
DISTRICT 80% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 33 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 13% |
| Ungraded | 7 | 2% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
78%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 72% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
39.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +15.0pp since 2023
Math
26.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 26.0% |
| 2023-24 | 24.0% | 19.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
24.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 44% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (24.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 424 | 84.9% | 24.6% |
| PLEASANT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 351 | 86.0% | 19.8% |
| DAVID N DINKINS SCHOOL JAMAICA | 446 | 89.9% | 53.3% |
| LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 306 | 83.7% | 17.1% |
| WOODLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 502 | 81.3% | 27.4% |
| ROSCOE CONKLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UTICA | 503 | 79.3% | 29.3% |
Matched among New York 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 DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Schenectady County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.6% | #2,159 of 2,335 | #20 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #2,176 of 2,342 ▲ 58 | #21 of 24 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #1,859 of 2,343 ▲ 193 | #14 of 24 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 424 | #1,239 of 2,585 | #9 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #948 of 2,338 | #11 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.7% | #10 of 2,388 | #9 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.9% | #614 of 2,534 | #3 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.4% | #463 of 1,757 | #2 of 17 |
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
424
+31 (+8%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 391
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 424 | 37.8 | 11.2:1 | 85% (360) |
| 2023-24 | 391 | 36.2 | 10.8:1 | 74% (288) |
| 2022-23 | 389 | 35 | 11.1:1 | 79% (307) |
| 2020-21 | 393 | 25 | 15.7:1 | 82% (321) |
| 2017-18 | 561 | 36 | 15.6:1 | 86% (484) |
| 2015-16 | 581 | 37 | 15.7:1 | 75% (437) |
| 2010-11 | 528 | 42 | 12.6:1 | 71% (373) |
| 2000-01 | 434 | 30 | 14.5:1 | 71% (310) |
| 1990-91 | 391 | 27 | 14.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the name of a mid-sized elementary school in SCHENECTADY, New York. Total enrollment is 424 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5.
SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT serves 8,948 students across 15 schools.
The largest group at DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Asian students, at 29%. The school is also 26% Black, 24% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 7% White. That is higher than the 5% Asian share among all Schenectady County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 78%.
The school had 37.8 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 11.2:1. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 85%. Compared with the 50% average for public schools in Schenectady County, the school's rate is higher.
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 8% of New York public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would score about 43.8%. It scores 24.6%, a bottom-10% result among New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
The school's county is Schenectady County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $79,623 a year, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shares Schenectady County with 39 other public schools.
About 0.4 miles separate DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL from the closest public school, PLEASANT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The five-mile area around DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 24.6% against a local average of 26.2%.
The school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Small).
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose 8%. The number of students per teacher dropped from 15.7 to 11.2 over 4 years.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Schenectady County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
160,369
Census ACS
Median income
$79,623
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
40
21,555 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,885 students
- ONEIDA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 657 students
- CENTRAL PARK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 600 students
- MONT PLEASANT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 569 students
- WOODLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 502 students
- PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 468 students
Other schools in SCHENECTADY
- SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,885 students
- NISKAYUNA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,379 students
- MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 924 students
- JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 671 students
- ONEIDA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 657 students
- DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 655 students
Nearby schools
- PLEASANT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 351
- MONT PLEASANT MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 569
- WILLIAM C KEANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 279
- DESTINE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.8 mi · 213
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 306
- HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 440
Frequently asked questions
About DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 424 students in grades PK-05.
Is DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
How diverse is DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 7% White, 24% Hispanic, 26% Black, 29% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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