Martin Luther King Jr. Education Center

Martin Luther King Jr. Education Center sits in Eugene, Oregon, and is classified as a high school. School enrollment was 7 students in 2024-25, in grades 6 through 12. For comparison, high schools in Oregon average about 630 students.

The district, Lane ESD, has 248 students enrolled across 4 schools.

No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Martin Luther King Jr. Education Center. The largest is White students, at 43%. Next come 29% multiracial and 14% Hispanic. That compares with about 81% White among all Lane County residents.

Federal data list 2 full-time-equivalent teachers at Martin Luther King Jr. Education Center in 2024-25, for a ratio of 3.5:1. That is 16.3 students per teacher below the 19.8:1 average for high schools in Oregon.

Among Lane County residents, the median household income is $71,544, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Martin Luther King Jr. Education Center is one of 117 public schools in the county.

The closest other public school is Holt Elementary School, about 0.9 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools.

In the federal locale system, Martin Luther King Jr. Education Center is coded City: Mid-size, for schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Enrollment was 15 in 2020-21 and 7 in 2024-25. Large swings like this can come from changes to the grades a school serves. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 5.0:1 to 3.5:1.

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