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Enrollment
602
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MERCED CITY ELEMENTARY·NCES 062460003689
Franklin Elementary
2936 Franklin Rd., Merced, CA 95348 · (209) 385-6623 · Merced County
GRADES KG–03ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL602 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of California public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
22.3:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
491 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 213 | 35% |
| Grade 1 | 154 | 26% |
| Grade 2 | 183 | 30% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 9% |
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
35.3%
CA avg 49.1% . -0.7pp since 2015
Math
29.4%
CA avg 37.7% . -4.6pp since 2015
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2015, while math scores are down about 5 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 9.8% | 25.5% | 27.4% | 37.3% |
| Math | 2.0% | 27.4% | 33.3% | 37.3% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.3% | 29.4% |
| 2023-24 | 43.8% | 29.2% |
| 2022-23 | 53.5% | 46.5% |
| 2021-22 | 22.7% | 27.3% |
| 2018-19 | 38.7% | 33.3% |
| 2017-18 | 25.4% | 26.6% |
| 2016-17 | 38.2% | 32.4% |
| 2015-16 | 36.0% | 34.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
34.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Franklin Elementary
Franklin Elementary's state test result (34.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Elementary this school | 602 | 81.6% | 34.4% |
| Barton (Clara) Elementary Anaheim | 588 | 78.4% | 29.4% |
| Grovecenter Elementary West Covina | 595 | 78.3% | 51.1% |
| Jefferson (Thomas) Elementary Anaheim | 513 | 80.3% | 42.1% |
| Ethel I. Baker Elementary Sacramento | 608 | 82.6% | 11.9% |
| Orangewood Elementary West Covina | 580 | 80.0% | 41.4% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Franklin Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Merced County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.4% | #3,023 of 5,151 | #26 of 54 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.4% | #3,289 of 5,172 ▼ 117 | #31 of 54 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.3% | #3,407 of 5,172 ▼ 1,039 | #34 of 54 ▼ 25 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.4pp | #1,039 of 5,116 | #17 of 53 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 602 | #1,384 of 5,915 | #19 of 60 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.3:1 | #2,436 of 5,352 | #21 of 53 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.9% | #2,844 of 5,354 | #10 of 53 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.6% | #2,020 of 5,625 | #30 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.4% | #3,388 of 3,837 | #28 of 35 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
602
-30 (-5%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 681
Student : Teacher
22.3:1
was 23.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 602 | 27 | 22.3:1 | 82% (491) |
| 2023-24 | 568 | 27 | 21.0:1 | 83% (469) |
| 2022-23 | 575 | 26.1 | 22.1:1 | 84% (484) |
| 2020-21 | 632 | 27 | 23.4:1 | 74% (470) |
| 2017-18 | 630 | 27 | 23.3:1 | 83% (520) |
| 2015-16 | 595 | 26 | 22.9:1 | 85% (503) |
| 2010-11 | 531 | N/A | N/A | 82% (437) |
| 2000-01 | 733 | 36 | 20.4:1 | 77% (563) |
| 1990-91 | 681 | 23 | 29.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Franklin Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (630 to 602); teachers unchanged (27 to 27).
About Franklin Elementary
Franklin Elementary is the name of a medium-sized elementary school in Merced, California. The school had 602 students in kindergarten through 3 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for elementary schools in California is about 465, so this school runs 29% larger than that.
Federal data list 19 schools in Merced City Elementary, with 11,108 students enrolled.
A majority of students at Franklin Elementary, 69%, are Hispanic. The next largest groups are 18% Asian, 7% White, 4% multiracial, and 2% Black. Franklin Elementary has a diversity index of 49%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
With 27 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Franklin Elementary was 22.3:1. Elementary schools in California have a similar average ratio of 22.3:1. Franklin Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 82%. Across public schools in Merced County, the average is about the same, 81%.
Measured against California public elementary schools, Franklin Elementary receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Franklin Elementary's average proficiency rate on state tests of 34.4% is 2.7 points above the 31.8% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Census Bureau estimates for Merced County show that median household income is about $65,510, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 15% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 16%. Franklin Elementary is one of 117 public schools in Merced County, which together enroll about 59,456 students.
The school nearest to Franklin Elementary is Joe Stefani, at a distance of about 0.3 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Franklin Elementary ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Mid-size: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Franklin Elementary had 632 students in 2020-21 and 602 in 2024-25, a 5% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.4:1 in 2020-21 to 22.3:1 in 2024-25.
Parents and students can post about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs at Franklin Elementary. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Merced County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
290,201
Census ACS
Median income
$65,510
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
15%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
117
59,456 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Merced City Elementary
- Rudolph Rivera ElementaryElementary · 917 students
- Donn B. Chenoweth ElementaryElementary · 722 students
- Luther Burbank ElementaryElementary · 716 students
- Allan Peterson ElementaryElementary · 690 students
- Joe StefaniElementary · 641 students
- Herbert Hoover MiddleMiddle · 629 students
Other schools in Merced
- Merced HighHigh · 1,943 students
- Golden Valley HighHigh · 1,917 students
- El Capitan HighHigh · 1,793 students
- Weaver MiddleMiddle · 1,073 students
- Pioneer ElementaryElementary · 1,055 students
- Merced County Special EducationCombined · 942 students
Other Franklin Elementary schools
74 other US public schools in 22 states are named Franklin Elementary. Franklin Elementary is the 10th largest of the 75.
- Franklin ElementaryElk Grove, CA · 932 students
- Franklin ElementaryModesto, CA · 777 students
- Franklin ElementaryRedlands, CA · 624 students
- Franklin ElementarySanta Monica, CA · 597 students
- Franklin ElementarySan Jose, CA · 525 students
Nearby schools
- Joe Stefani0.3 mi · 641
- McSwain Elementary2.4 mi · 912
- Buhach Colony High2.4 mi · 1,704
- Leontine Gracey Elementary2.7 mi · 509
- Merced Scholars Charter2.8 mi · 334
- Valley Merced Community2.9 mi · 99
Frequently asked questions
About Franklin ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Franklin Elementary?
Franklin Elementary enrolls approximately 602 students in grades KG-03.
Is Franklin Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Franklin Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-03.
How many teachers does Franklin Elementary have?
Franklin Elementary employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 22.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Franklin Elementary?
At Franklin Elementary, the student body is approximately 7% White, 69% Hispanic, 2% Black, 18% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Franklin Elementary?
Franklin Elementary is overseen by Merced City Elementary in Merced County.
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