Franklin Elementary

Set in Santa Monica, California, Franklin Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus, run under Santa Monica-Malibu Unified. It caters to 597 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 28% above the state mean of about 465.

Santa Monica-Malibu Unified runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 8,616 students. Franklin Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Franklin Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment; the rest consists of 16% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

In terms of school funding signals, Franklin Elementary shows 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Franklin Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 13% of students at Franklin Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Franklin Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.7%, the actual is 83.7%, a residual of +12.0 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Franklin Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is McKinley Elementary, roughly 0.7 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 Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 62.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 24%: 782 students in 2018 compared to 597 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 67% to 61%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.