Franklin High

Franklin High, a high-enrollment high school in Elk Grove, California, part of Elk Grove Unified, enrolls 2,650 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Franklin High sits 216% larger than that benchmark.

Elk Grove Unified comprises 67 schools with combined enrollment of 63,232 students; Franklin High is among them.

Looking at the student body, Franklin High reports that the most-represented group is Asian (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 20% Hispanic, 14% White, 12% multiracial, 10% Black. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 18% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 112 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 40% of students at Franklin High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Franklin High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.7%; this one delivers 47.2%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Sacramento County put median household income runs about $92,175, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Franklin High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Toby Johnson Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Franklin High. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Franklin High ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 57.1%.

Franklin High operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 2,605 students in 2018 compared to 2,650 in 2025.

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