Sausalito Marin City School District

The school's administrative offices are in the Martin Luther King Jr. Academy facility in Marin City.

Most of the military families from nearby bases, who were mostly White, sent their children to Sausalito public schools.

Despite the district's high student spending and small class sizes, test scores were low.

[6] In 1997 the Marin County Civil Grand Jury published a report indicating that, despite the ample funding, the district had poor performance and violence.

[7] Between that year and 2011 the district had experienced, on six occasions, a conflict like a member of the board of trustees or a superintendent leaving without notice which required action from the Marin County Office of Education.

"[9] A 2008 followup to the county report indicated improvements and suggested that the Bayside and Martin Luther King schools be returned to K-8 configurations.

[13] In 2018 the office of the Attorney General of California had accused the Sausalito Marin City district of racially discriminating by keeping the two different schools open.

In August 2019 the State of California's courts ordered the Sausalito district to racially desegregate.

[15] In 2021 Willow Creek consolidated into the Martin Luther King School in Marin City.

[18] In 2015 it became the first school district in the United States to only serve organic and genetically modified organism-free food.

On November 2, 2004, District voters approved Measure I, the School Improvement Bond of 2004, a $15.9 million bond measure that authorizes funding for repairs, upgrades, and new construction projects to the three schools in the District.

Enrollment by race or ethnicity and by gender are as follows: Martin Luther King, Jr.is a Title I School, with a School-Wide Program.

The statistics in the table include the combined demographics from Bayside Element and MLK Jr. Academy which were separate schools until 2013.