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Which teacher or staff member at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
454
Elementary
DISTRICT 636 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510313001952
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary
1800 Horner Rd., Woodbridge, VA 22191 · (703) 590-1616 · Prince William County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL454 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 72% of Virginia public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
314 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 66%
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, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 35 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
76%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
74.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -1.0pp since 2022
Math
80.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +8.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 8 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.0% | 80.0% |
| 2023-24 | 78.0% | 75.0% |
| 2022-23 | 75.0% | 72.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
77.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.3%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary's state test result (77.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary this school | 454 | 69.2% | 77.5% |
| Centre Ridge Elementary Centreville | 635 | 73.1% | 64.0% |
| Rockledge Elementary Woodbridge | 495 | 69.5% | 70.9% |
| Garfield Elementary Springfield | 315 | 79.4% | 62.8% |
| Forestdale Elementary Springfield | 537 | 73.9% | 48.3% |
| Rosa Parks Elementary Woodbridge | 547 | 70.4% | 68.4% |
Matched among Virginia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Prince William County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.5% | #379 of 1,101 | #32 of 64 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #411 of 1,111 ▲ 84 | #29 of 64 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #489 of 1,111 ▼ 116 | #36 of 64 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 454 | #693 of 1,176 | #54 of 64 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #820 of 1,105 | #25 of 64 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.7% | #37 of 1,106 | #8 of 64 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.2% | #706 of 1,157 | #47 of 64 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.9% | #143 of 324 | #12 of 17 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
454
+8 (+2%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 677
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 15.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 454 | 29.7 | 15.3:1 | 69% (314) |
| 2023-24 | 424 | 27.8 | 15.3:1 | 72% (304) |
| 2022-23 | 407 | 27.8 | 14.7:1 | 68% (275) |
| 2020-21 | 446 | 29 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 417 | 26.6 | 15.7:1 | 51% (213) |
| 2015-16 | 514 | 31 | 16.6:1 | 51% (263) |
| 2010-11 | 520 | 31 | 16.8:1 | 48% (249) |
| 2000-01 | 613 | 34 | 18.0:1 | 22% (134) |
| 1990-91 | 677 | 32 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 9% (417 to 454); teachers up 12% (26.6 to 29.7).
About Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary
This page covers Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school in Woodbridge, Virginia. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 454 students.
Prince William County Public Schools runs Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary along with 94 other schools, enrolling 90,242 students in total.
Of every 100 students at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary, about 33 are Hispanic, the largest group. The school is also 28% Asian, 18% Black, 14% White, and 7% multiracial. A diversity index of 76% means there is a 76% chance two randomly chosen students at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary are from different groups.
For every teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary, there are about 15.3 students; the school has 29.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Virginia, 13.8:1, is lower. There are 314 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 69% of enrollment. Compared with the 55% average for public schools in Prince William County, the school's rate is higher.
Among Virginia public elementary schools, Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary outscored 72%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
A school with Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary's lunch-eligibility share in Virginia is predicted to score 69.3%. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary scores 77.5%, 8.2 points above that line.
In Prince William County, home to about 488,880 people, the median household earns about $131,402 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 45% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Public schools in Prince William County number 102, with about 89,591 students.
Rosa Parks Elementary is about 0.6 miles from Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 72.3% proficiency; Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary posts 77.5%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (446) and 2024-25 (454).
The allk12 page for Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary lets the school community talk about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Prince William County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
488,880
Census ACS
Median income
$131,402
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
102
89,591 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Prince William County Public Schools
- Charles J. Colgan Sr. HighHigh · 2,956 students
- Woodbridge HighHigh · 2,898 students
- Osbourn Park HighHigh · 2,661 students
- Gainesville HighHigh · 2,648 students
- Gar-Field HighHigh · 2,524 students
- Forest Park HighHigh · 2,343 students
Other schools in Woodbridge
- Woodbridge HighHigh · 2,898 students
- Gar-Field HighHigh · 2,524 students
- Forest Park HighHigh · 2,343 students
- Freedom HighHigh · 2,303 students
- C.D. Hylton HighHigh · 1,859 students
- Lake Ridge MiddleMiddle · 1,487 students
Other Martin Luther King Junior Elementary schools
14 other US public schools in 9 states are named Martin Luther King Junior Elementary. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary is the 8th largest of the 15.
- Martin Luther King Jr Elementary SchoolMacon, GA · 675 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. ElementaryHanford, CA · 624 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary SchoolHopkinsville, KY · 595 students
- Martin Luther King Jr Elementary SchoolCOLORADO SPRINGS, CO · 498 students
- Martin Luther King Jr ElementaryYakima, WA · 485 students
Nearby schools
- Rosa Parks Elementary0.6 mi · 547
- Sonnie Penn Elementary0.8 mi · 744
- Herbert J. Saunders Middle1.1 mi · 1,198
- Sharon C. McAuliffe Elementary1.2 mi · 379
- C.D. Hylton High1.3 mi · 1,859
- Stuart M. Beville Middle1.5 mi · 1,181
Frequently asked questions
About Martin Luther King Jr. ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary?
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary enrolls approximately 454 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary serve?
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary?
Approximately 15.3:1 students per teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary?
Student demographics at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary are roughly 14% White, 33% Hispanic, 18% Black, 28% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary public or private?
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Prince William County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.