Public school / Primary
Martin Luther King Jr Elementary
Benton Harbor, Michigan
- NCES ID
- 260483004175
- District
- Benton Harbor Area Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Martin Luther King Jr Elementary is a public primary school in Benton Harbor, Michigan, run by Benton Harbor Area Schools. It enrols 287 students — the 67415th largest of 3,559 public schools in Michigan.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
287
Teachers
14.0
Students per teacher
20.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
94.1%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Benton Harbor Area Schools
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Benton Harbor High School495 students
- 2Fair Plain Middle School288 students
- 3Martin Luther King Jr Elementary287 students
- 4Fair Plain East Elementary169 students
- 5Discovery Enrichment Center99 students
- 6Career and Alternative Pathways To Education Center86 students
- Enrollment−25.5%
- Teachers−36.4%
- Students per teacher+20.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+58.7%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory