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How has SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
614
Elementary
DISTRICT 438 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362475003384
SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR
485 CLINTON AVE N, ROCHESTER, NY 14605 · (585) 325-7828 · Monroe County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL614 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
498 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 58%
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
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
10.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
13.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 10 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
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
10.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-34.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 11% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 45% 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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
614
-75 (-11%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 14.3:1
% White
2%
was 1%
% Hispanic
70%
was 70%
% Black
24%
was 28%
% Asian
0%
was 0%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR
SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR is one of the reasonably sized K-5 schools in ROCHESTER, New York, part of ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 614 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 39% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.
SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR is one of 51 schools operated by ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that caters to 25,949 students overall.
On demographics, SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR lists that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 24% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 10% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 81% of students at SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Monroe County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 45.2%; SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR posts 10.6%, -34.6 points below that line.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Monroe County put the typical household earns roughly $76,382 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR is one of 186 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students).
Nearest neighbor: SCHOOL 22-LINCOLN SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 18.7%.
SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR operates from a metropolitan location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR has contracted 11%, going from 689 students in 2018 to 614 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.
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Monroe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
753,753
Census ACS
Median income
$76,382
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
186
106,108 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
- PADILLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- SCHOOL OF THE ARTSHigh · 1,065 students
- FRANKLIN UPPER SCHOOLHigh · 1,006 students
- SCHOOL 33-JOHN JAMES AUDUBONElementary · 980 students
- SCHOOL 58-WORLD OF INQUIRY SCHOOLCombined · 896 students
Other schools in ROCHESTER
- ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOL 1Combined · 1,405 students
- EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
- PADILLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,164 students
- IRONDEQUOIT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,160 students
- GATES CHILI HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,134 students
Nearby schools
- SCHOOL 22-LINCOLN SCHOOL0.5 mi · 522
- SCHOOL 5-JOHN WILLIAMS0.7 mi · 485
- SCHOOL 58-WORLD OF INQUIRY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 896
- DR. FREDDIE THOMAS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 512
- SCHOOL 8-ROBERTO CLEMENTE1.0 mi · 436
- EUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOS CHARTER SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,051
Frequently asked questions
About SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWhat is the total enrollment at SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR?
SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR enrolls approximately 614 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR serve?
SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR?
Approximately 11.3:1 students per teacher at SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
How diverse is SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR?
SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR reports a student body of 2% White, 70% Hispanic, 24% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR public or private?
SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR is a public K-12 school, overseen by ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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