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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