Martin Luther King Junior Charter School of Excellence (Dis

Schools in Martin Luther King Junior Charter School of Excellence (Dis consist of one elementary charter school, Martin Luther King Junior Charter School of Excellence, serving grades K–5 with 354 students in Springfield, Massachusetts; there are no middle, high, or alternative schools in this district extract.

For parents, the key academic picture is that proficiency is below state averages in every tested subject and grade. In 2025–2026, ELA all-grades proficiency was 16.86% versus 40.03% statewide, math was 14.53% versus 41.11%, and science was 31.48% versus 40.98%. Math is the weakest subject, with a 26.58-point gap, and every tested grade trails the state: 3rd grade 15.52%, 4th grade 15.00%, and 5th grade 12.96%. Science showed the brightest change, rising from 14.55% to 31.48%, a 16.93-point gain that narrowed the gap to 9.50 points, though science is tested only in grade 5, so the cohort is small. ELA stayed low, moving from 18.45% to 16.86%, a 1.59-point decline. Rankings remain bottom-tier: the district is 341 of 351, 3rd percentile, with 0 stars; the latest school rank is 813 of 899, 10th percentile, also 0 stars, an improvement from 884 of 916 and 3rd percentile in 2023–2024 but still bottom-decile. The student-teacher ratio is 9.5, and per-student spending was $19,116 in 2020–2021; free/reduced lunch is not reported and should not be treated as 0%.

Overall, the standout within-school feature is the one-year science improvement, while math is the largest proficiency gap and ELA is persistently low. All grade-level results are below state averages, and no ranking or proficiency metric identifies this school as high-performing. Because this is a single-school district, there is no cross-school comparison within the extract. The relatively low student-teacher ratio and high per-student spending are notable, but the data set offers no state benchmark for them and the spending year is older than the test-score years, so these figures should not be read as causing or predicting outcomes. The missing free/reduced-lunch percentage means socioeconomic context cannot be assessed from this extract. No test-score values are suppressed or shown as bounds/ranges; the reported scores are exact proficiency percentages.