Martin Luther King Jr. Middle

Martin Luther King Jr. Middle is a cozy middle-grades school in Richmond, Virginia, run under Richmond City Public Schools. The school hosts 500 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 33% leaner than the state mean of about 750.

Richmond City Public Schools runs 47 schools in total, collectively educating 20,962 students. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle reports that 92% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 41% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle is in the bottom 10% of Virginia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 61.4%; Martin Luther King Jr. Middle posts 35.9%, -25.5 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Richmond city indicate the typical household earns roughly $64,587 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Richmond city's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,253 students), Martin Luther King Jr. Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Martin Luther King Jr. Preschool, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.3%.

Martin Luther King Jr. Middle operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 611 students in 2018 compared to 500 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 98% to 92% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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