Franklin Police and Fire High School

Franklin Police and Fire High School is one of the close-knit senior highs in PHOENIX, Arizona, run under Phoenix Union High School District (4286), with 313 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 631 students each, so Franklin Police and Fire High School sits 50% below that benchmark.

Phoenix Union High School District (4286) runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 25,800 students. Franklin Police and Fire High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Franklin Police and Fire High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Franklin Police and Fire High School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.2:1, putting Franklin Police and Fire High School tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Maricopa County indicate median household income runs about $89,300, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Maricopa County's 1352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students), Franklin Police and Fire High School is one campus in the mix.

Metropolitan Arts Institute is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Franklin Police and Fire High School.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Franklin Police and Fire High School has held roughly steady, going from 319 students in 2018 to 313 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 91% to 96% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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