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Enrollment
485
Elementary
DISTRICT 451 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YAKIMA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 531011001814
Martin Luther King Jr Elementary
2000 S 18th St, Yakima, WA 98903 · (509) 573-1100 · Yakima County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL485 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 16% of Washington public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.8:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
449 students
DISTRICT 86% · STATE 51%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 98 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
15%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 68% · 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
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
21.6%
WA avg 58.4% . -4.6pp since 2014
Math
20.5%
WA avg 51.2% . -8.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 8 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.6% | 20.5% |
| 2023-24 | 23.5% | 19.8% |
| 2022-23 | 27.6% | 26.4% |
| 2021-22 | 23.4% | 24.5% |
| 2018-19 | 37.2% | 32.4% |
| 2017-18 | 30.2% | 32.7% |
| 2016-17 | 17.7% | 18.6% |
| 2015-16 | 23.7% | 23.3% |
| 2014-15 | 26.2% | 28.8% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. 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
21.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 18% typical for Washington 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 Washington'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 (21.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Luther King Jr Elementary this school | 485 | 92.6% | 21.7% |
| Garfield Elementary School Yakima | 507 | 92.9% | 22.7% |
| Barge-Lincoln Elementary School Yakima | 518 | 92.9% | 25.2% |
| Valley View Elementary TOPPENISH | 484 | 91.1% | 22.1% |
| Saddle Mountain Elementary Mattawa | 470 | 91.7% | 21.0% |
| Rowena Chess Elementary PASCO | 436 | 91.1% | 11.5% |
Matched among Washington 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 Washington | In Yakima County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.7% | #894 of 936 | #36 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.5% | #1,038 of 1,103 ▼ 10 | #40 of 45 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.6% | #1,053 of 1,102 ▼ 16 | #37 of 45 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.0pp | #225 of 928 | #11 of 44 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 485 | #334 of 1,268 | #18 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #458 of 1,085 | #17 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 15.4% | #1,062 of 1,088 | #41 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.6% | #13 of 1,169 | #7 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.5% | #239 of 778 | #14 of 40 |
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
485
-93 (-16%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 481
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 17.0:1
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 | 485 | 31.4 | 15.5:1 | 93% (449) |
| 2023-24 | 528 | 36.3 | 14.5:1 | 95% (500) |
| 2022-23 | 513 | 37 | 13.9:1 | 94% (480) |
| 2020-21 | 578 | 34 | 17.0:1 | 90% (518) |
| 2017-18 | 626 | 34.9 | 17.9:1 | 82% (511) |
| 2015-16 | 601 | 35 | 17.2:1 | 94% (562) |
| 2010-11 | 568 | 32 | 17.8:1 | 84% (479) |
| 2000-01 | 486 | 26 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 481 | 30 | 16.0:1 | 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 down 23% (626 to 485); teachers down 10% (34.9 to 31.4).
About Martin Luther King Jr Elementary
Among the schools in Yakima, Washington, is Martin Luther King Jr Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school. The school offers kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 485 students. Across elementary schools in Washington, the average enrollment is about 380.
Yakima School District counts 27 schools and 15,488 students, including Martin Luther King Jr Elementary.
Hispanic students account for 92% of the school's enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 6% White. Among all residents of Yakima County, the Hispanic share is about 52%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 15%.
There are about 15.5 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Martin Luther King Jr Elementary, which has 31.4. Elementary schools in Washington have an average ratio of 17.3:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 93%. The rate at public schools in Yakima County averages 77%, lower than here.
Martin Luther King Jr Elementary holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 16% of Washington public elementary schools.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 18.1% at Martin Luther King Jr Elementary; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 21.7%.
In Yakima County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $70,656 a year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of people live in poverty. Counting Martin Luther King Jr Elementary, Yakima County has 119 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Martin Luther King Jr Elementary is closest to Union Gap School, about 1.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Martin Luther King Jr Elementary is 6th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Mid-size. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school shrank from 578 students in 2020-21 to 485 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 17.0:1 in 2020-21 to 15.5:1 in 2024-25.
The Martin Luther King Jr Elementary discussion page is a place for special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Yakima County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
257,152
Census ACS
Median income
$70,656
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
119
52,145 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Yakima School District
- Davis High SchoolHigh · 2,359 students
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 848 students
- Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 840 students
- Lewis & Clark Middle SchoolMiddle · 815 students
- Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 748 students
Other schools in Yakima
- Davis High SchoolHigh · 2,359 students
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- West Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,494 students
- West Valley Mid-Level CampusMiddle · 1,167 students
- East Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,064 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 848 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 5th largest of the 15.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary SchoolSEATTLE, WA · 289 students
- 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
Nearby schools
- Union Gap School1.2 mi · 558
- Adams Elementary School1.6 mi · 643
- Ridgeview Elementary1.7 mi · 533
- Hoover Elementary School1.7 mi · 582
- Washington Middle School1.8 mi · 748
- Lewis & Clark Middle School2.1 mi · 815
Frequently asked questions
About Martin Luther King Jr ElementaryHow many students attend Martin Luther King Jr Elementary?
Martin Luther King Jr Elementary enrolls approximately 485 students in grades KG-05.
Is Martin Luther King Jr Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Martin Luther King Jr Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Martin Luther King Jr Elementary have?
Martin Luther King Jr Elementary employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Martin Luther King Jr Elementary?
Student demographics at Martin Luther King Jr Elementary are roughly 6% White, 92% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is Martin Luther King Jr Elementary in?
Martin Luther King Jr Elementary is part of Yakima School District.
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