Enrollment
303
Elementary
DISTRICT 482 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362937003957
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
211 SQUARE ST, UTICA, NY 13501 · (315) 368-6721 · Oneida County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL303 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 42% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
10.8:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
273 students
DISTRICT 77% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 33 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 56 | 18% |
| Ungraded | 7 | 2% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is 32% smaller than its 6th grade class (56).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 78% · 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
46.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
50.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +14.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.0% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 33.0% | 36.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
40.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for New York 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 York'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 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (40.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 303 | 90.1% | 40.3% |
| LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 306 | 83.7% | 17.1% |
| PLEASANT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 351 | 86.0% | 19.8% |
| ROOTS ACADEMY AT WEST HILL ALBANY | 283 | 86.6% | 17.2% |
| PS 134 HOLLIS HOLLIS | 325 | 86.5% | 34.8% |
| VAN CORLAER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 311 | 83.9% | 26.8% |
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 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Oneida County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.3% | #1,595 of 2,335 | #19 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,463 of 2,342 ▲ 360 | #16 of 37 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #1,529 of 2,343 ▲ 113 | #17 of 37 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 303 | #1,980 of 2,585 | #31 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #721 of 2,338 | #6 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.9% | #48 of 2,388 | #7 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.1% | #412 of 2,534 | #1 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.4% | #738 of 1,757 | #11 of 25 |
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
303
-17 (-5%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 367
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 303 | 28.2 | 10.8:1 | 90% (273) |
| 2023-24 | 298 | 27.9 | 10.7:1 | 89% (266) |
| 2022-23 | 303 | 27.3 | 11.1:1 | 91% (275) |
| 2020-21 | 320 | 26 | 12.3:1 | 94% (300) |
| 2017-18 | 367 | 22 | 16.7:1 | 90% (330) |
| 2015-16 | 324 | 23 | 14.1:1 | 91% (296) |
| 2010-11 | 283 | 21 | 13.5:1 | 96% (271) |
| 2000-01 | 249 | 20 | 12.4:1 | 98% (243) |
| 1990-91 | 367 | 26 | 14.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in UTICA, New York, according to federal school records. It had 303 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 6. By comparison, elementary schools in New York enroll about 443 students on average.
UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which runs MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, has 13 schools and 9,075 students.
Black students make up 34% of enrollment at MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the largest share of any group. The rest of enrollment is 25% Asian, 24% Hispanic, 10% White, and 7% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Oneida County's population at about 6%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 75, compared with 70 nationally.
There are 28.2 full-time-equivalent teachers at MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, giving a ratio of 10.8:1. Elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1, 2.1 more students per teacher than here. A total of 273 students, or 90%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Oneida County, the average is 47%.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 42% of New York public elementary schools.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 40.3% is 1.5 points below the 41.9% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In the wider Oneida County area, median household income comes to about $70,154, roughly 28% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Oneida County's 72 public schools enroll about 32,265 students and include MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
A public school about 0.5 miles away, WATSON WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is the closest to MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as City: Small by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment fell 5% over 4 years, reaching 303 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (10.8:1) than in 2020-21 (12.3:1).
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Oneida County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
229,124
Census ACS
Median income
$70,154
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
72
32,265 students
Quick facts
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- GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 634 students
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- ROSCOE CONKLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 503
- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 618
- THOMAS R PROCTOR HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 2,820
- KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 585
- ALBANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 478
Frequently asked questions
About MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 303 students in grades KG-06.
Is MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 10.8:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 10% White, 24% Hispanic, 34% Black, 25% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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