Martin Luther King Jr Middle

Martin Luther King Jr Middle operates as a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in Charlotte, North Carolina, part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Current enrollment sits at 844 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 605 students each, so Martin Luther King Jr Middle sits 40% larger than that benchmark.

Martin Luther King Jr Middle is one of 186 schools operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a district that serves 145,014 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Martin Luther King Jr Middle lists that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest is composed of 30% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

With demographic context factored in, Martin Luther King Jr Middle falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.4%; this one comes in at 28.1%, -20.3 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Mecklenburg County indicate median household earnings sit near $87,005, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Mecklenburg County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), of which Martin Luther King Jr Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Hidden Valley Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Martin Luther King Jr Middle at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 40.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 10%: 934 students in 2018 compared to 844 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 42% to 30% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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