# Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-elementary-bakersfield

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060363014494`
- **School name**: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93307
- **Address**: 1100 Citadel St.
- **District**: Bakersfield City (LEAID `0603630`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 35.34428, -118.98953
- **Phone**: (661)631-5229
- **Website**: https://www.bcsd.com

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 709
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 32
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Yellow
  - math: Red
  - ela: Red
  - chronic_absent: Red

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 27.3% proficient — 340 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 29.9% (226 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 34.2% (238 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.1% (28 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 80.9%
- **Black/African American**: 0.6%
- **Asian**: 13.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 1.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.2% — 69 students
- **English Learners**: 39.0% — 264 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,257
- **Federal share**: $2,640
- **State + local share**: $17,617
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 676
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,118,232
- **Federal share**: 15.7%
- **State share**: 77.8%
- **Local share**: 6.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,808,723

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $42,768
- **Poverty rate**: 32.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 5.8%
- **Unemployment**: 8.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $943
- **Foreign-born residents**: 36.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.6 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 20
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.71 miles (1885 MADISON STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BAKERSFIELD, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 15.6697 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Casa Loma Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 22.2% (this school: 29.9%)
- **Fremont Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 17.6% (this school: 29.9%)
- **Sequoia Jr. High** — 1.3 mi away, 25.9% (this school: 29.9%)
- **Wayside Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 23.9% (this school: 29.9%)
- **Vista Continuation High** — 1.4 mi away, 4.29% (this school: 29.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Fremont Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 34% (this school: 23.65%)
- **Sequoia Jr. High** — 1.3 mi away, 34.6% (this school: 23.65%)
- **Wayside Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 25.65% (this school: 23.65%)
- **Vista Continuation High** — 1.4 mi away, 24.3% (this school: 23.65%)
- **Bessie E. Owens Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 53.25% (this school: 23.65%)

### math proficiency
- **Bessie E. Owens Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **McKinley Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Leo G. Pauly Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Mt. Vernon Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **South High** — 2.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-elementary-bakersfield
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-elementary-bakersfield/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-elementary-bakersfield/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-elementary-bakersfield/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-elementary-bakersfield/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-elementary-bakersfield/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-elementary-bakersfield/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-elementary-bakersfield/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-elementary-bakersfield/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-elementary-bakersfield/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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