# Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academy

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060195010559`
- **School name**: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academy
- **Location**: Salinas, CA 93905
- **Address**: 925 North Sanborn Rd.
- **District**: Alisal Union (LEAID `0601950`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 36.68630, -121.61700
- **Phone**: (831)796-3916
- **Website**: https://www.alisal.org/king

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 577
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.2%

## 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)**: 29.8% proficient — 335 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 12.3% (77 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 15.4% (89 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.0% (30 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (8 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 99.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 0.0%
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,715
- **Federal share**: $3,172
- **State + local share**: $17,543
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 601
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,805,757
- **Federal share**: 13.1%
- **State share**: 69.9%
- **Local share**: 17.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,525,666

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $120,227
- **Poverty rate**: 15.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.4%
- **Unemployment**: 1.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,078
- **Foreign-born residents**: 44.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.0 miles (CRAZY HORSE SANITARY LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.92 miles (PEREZ AUTO REPAIR 15 SHERWOOD SALINAS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ALCO WATER SERVICE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.16393 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Jesse G. Sanchez Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 10.4% (this school: 12.3%)
- **Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 11.7% (this school: 12.3%)
- **Fremont Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 11.3% (this school: 12.3%)
- **La Paz Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 11% (this school: 12.3%)
- **Alisal High** — 0.9 mi away, 0.21% (this school: 12.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Jesse G. Sanchez Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 25.9% (this school: 24.9%)
- **Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 28.3% (this school: 24.9%)
- **Fremont Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 30.1% (this school: 24.9%)
- **Cesar E. Chavez Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 39.4% (this school: 24.9%)
- **La Paz Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 29.25% (this school: 24.9%)

### math proficiency
- **Monte Bella Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **New Republic Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Harden Middle** — 2.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Henry F. Kammann Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Salinas City Virtual Academy** — 2.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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