# Martin Luther King Middle

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/martin-luther-king-middle-berkeley/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/martin-luther-king-middle-berkeley

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060474000443`
- **School name**: Martin Luther King Middle
- **Location**: Berkeley, CA 94703
- **Address**: 1781 Rose St.
- **District**: Berkeley Unified (LEAID `0604740`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 37.88167, -122.27720
- **Phone**: (510)644-6280

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 851
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 47
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 32.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 62.3% proficient — 828 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 13.3% (118 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.8% (46 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (8 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 16.1%
- **Black/African American**: 8.2%
- **Asian**: 10.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 47.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 17.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 27.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.6% — 109 students
- **English Learners**: 5.4% — 47 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 53 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 26 students
- **Autism**: 16 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,280
- **Federal share**: $622
- **State + local share**: $21,658
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 866
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $27,225,128
- **Federal share**: 6.4%
- **State share**: 29.0%
- **Local share**: 64.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $13,018,743

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $179,868
- **Poverty rate**: 4.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 83.6%
- **Unemployment**: 1.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,928
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.5 miles (AMCO CHEMICAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 50
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.84 miles (EL CERRITO PLAZA BART)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.7826 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ruth Acty Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 5.7% (this school: 13.3%)
- **Berkeley Arts Magnet at Whittier** — 0.5 mi away, 10.7% (this school: 13.3%)
- **Marin Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 8.3% (this school: 13.3%)
- **Berkeley High** — 1.0 mi away, 0.53% (this school: 13.3%)
- **Cornell Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 6% (this school: 13.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Ruth Acty Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 75.4% (this school: 71.15%)
- **Berkeley Arts Magnet at Whittier** — 0.5 mi away, 73.85% (this school: 71.15%)
- **Marin Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 72.45% (this school: 71.15%)
- **Cragmont Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 71.45% (this school: 71.15%)
- **Cornell Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 73% (this school: 71.15%)

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