Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School

Set in Portland, Oregon, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School is a reasonably sized primary school, operated by Portland SD 1J. It caters to 312 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Portland SD 1J comprises 86 schools with combined enrollment of 41,894 students; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School is among them.

Demographically, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School logs that the most-represented group is Black (31%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 26% White, 21% Hispanic, 18% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Multnomah County as a whole is about 6% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Roughly 112% of students at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Multnomah County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, census data for Multnomah County shows the typical household earns roughly $88,766 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Multnomah County's 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Jefferson High School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 15%: 369 students in 2018 compared to 312 in 2025. The White share of enrollment expanded from 13% to 26% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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