Franklin Elementary

Franklin Elementary is one of the reasonably sized primary schools in Loomis, California, run under Loomis Union Elementary, with 433 students on its rolls from grades K through 8.

Loomis Union Elementary comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,826 students; Franklin Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Franklin Elementary lists that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 12% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian.

On the resource side, The school reports having 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 11% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Placer County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Franklin Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.8%, the actual is 66.4%, a residual of -6.4 points.

In the broader community, Placer County reports that median household earnings sit near $115,998, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Franklin Elementary is one of 123 public schools in Placer County (combined enrollment of about 70,590 students).

The closest other public school is Loomis Basin Charter, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Franklin Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 67.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 13%: 498 students in 2018 compared to 433 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 74% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.

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