Franklin (Benjamin) Elementary

Franklin (Benjamin) Elementary is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in Anaheim, California, one of the schools within Anaheim Elementary, instructing 604 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Franklin (Benjamin) Elementary sits 30% above that benchmark.

Franklin (Benjamin) Elementary is one of 24 schools operated by Anaheim Elementary, a district that serves 13,964 students overall.

On demographics, Franklin (Benjamin) Elementary shows that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% multiracial, 4% White, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.2:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Orange County's rate of about 55%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Franklin (Benjamin) Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.7%, the actual is 35.0%, a residual of +0.3 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Orange County put the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Franklin (Benjamin) Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Anaheim High, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Franklin (Benjamin) Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 26.0%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Franklin (Benjamin) Elementary's enrollment has decreased 21% since 2018, when it stood at 769 (now 604). Class-load math has fell: from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 24.2:1 in 2025.

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