Original Research by School Decision on Martin Luther King Jr High School
Martin Luther King Jr High School is a special education school serving grades nine through twelve in Hastings-on-Hudson as part of the Greenburgh-Graham Union Free School District. It is one piece of a specialized district designed to serve students with Individualized Education Plans, not a traditional neighborhood high school.
The school is small, with an enrollment drawn entirely from students placed by Committees on Special Education, rather than a geographic attendance zone. The student body is predominantly Black and Hispanic. A meaningful share of students come from families qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The exact count of students with disabilities is not reported separately, as the entire school population is served through special education programming.
What defines Greenburgh-Graham is its therapeutic day program. Until 2020, the district offered both day and residential placements at its South Broadway campus; the residential cottages were closed that year, and the district now operates as day-only. That change removed what had been a long-standing placement option for families whose children required twenty-four-hour care and support. For current families, this is a full-day program without residential services. The district serves students across K-12, and Martin Luther King Jr is the secondary (grades nine-twelve) component of that offering.
State testing data for this school was not available, which reflects a reality of special education settings: schools serving populations with complex disabilities and individualized plans often test very small numbers of students in any given year, and New York suppresses results when numbers are too small to report reliably. Without accessible academic performance metrics, a parent cannot see how this school's instruction compares to other schools on standardized measures.
Program detail and course offerings for the school were not provided in available sources. A parent considering this placement would benefit from a direct conversation with the school about the structure of the day program, the nature of therapeutic supports, the curriculum framework, and how academic, behavioral, and social-emotional goals are integrated.
The school sits in Hastings-on-Hudson, a small Hudson River village characterized as an artsy, eco-conscious enclave with a locally rooted downtown and a significant population of artists and media workers. Housing values in the area are well above state and national medians. The village is walkable in its compact core, though steep terrain limits foot traffic for some errands. Transit access includes Metro-North's Hudson Line for commuters and the Bee-Line bus system. The school district is a major institutional employer in the village, and most residents work outside the community, often in New York City, reflecting a commuter-suburb pattern.
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