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Enrollment
367
Middle
DISTRICT 492 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREELEY-EVANS SCHOOL DISTRICT 6·NCES 080441000639
Franklin Middle School
818 35TH AVENUE, GREELEY, CO 80634 · (970) 348-3200 · Weld County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL367 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 51% of Colorado public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
322 students
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 50%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 100 | 27% |
| Grade 7 | 112 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 155 | 42% |
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
28.6%
CO avg 44.9% . +0.8pp since 2023
Math
19.1%
CO avg 36.1% . +1.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.6% | 19.1% |
| 2023-24 | 27.8% | 18.0% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. 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
20.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
13.5%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 14% typical for Colorado 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 Colorado'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 Middle School
Franklin Middle School's state test result (20.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Middle School this school | 367 | 87.7% | 20.9% |
| Shaw Heights Middle School WESTMINSTER | 321 | 86.6% | 13.4% |
| DSST: College View Middle School DENVER | 446 | 86.3% | 20.9% |
| Heath Middle School GREELEY | 499 | 80.4% | 12.8% |
| Bear Valley International School DENVER | 313 | 77.6% | 22.4% |
| Fort Logan Northgate DENVER | 338 | 85.8% | 11.2% |
Matched among Colorado middle 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 Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Weld County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.9% | #184 of 241 | #14 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.1% | #164 of 244 ▼ 5 | #11 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.6% | #185 of 246 ▼ 3 | #13 of 19 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 367 | #170 of 278 | #14 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #120 of 227 | #12 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.4% | #193 of 227 | #15 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.7% | #15 of 246 | #1 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.5% | #34 of 169 | #2 of 12 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
367
-164 (-31%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 489
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 367 | 22.9 | 16.0:1 | 88% (322) |
| 2023-24 | 400 | 31.2 | 12.8:1 | 92% (368) |
| 2022-23 | 446 | 28.1 | 15.9:1 | 89% (395) |
| 2020-21 | 531 | 36 | 14.8:1 | 95% (503) |
| 2017-18 | 536 | 32.6 | 16.4:1 | 89% (479) |
| 2015-16 | 650 | 37 | 17.6:1 | 88% (572) |
| 2010-11 | 745 | 37 | 20.1:1 | 85% (633) |
| 2000-01 | 700 | 36 | 19.4:1 | 49% (344) |
| 1990-91 | 489 | 27 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Franklin Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (536 to 367); teachers down 30% (32.6 to 22.9).
About Franklin Middle School
Franklin Middle School runs as a low-enrollment middle-grades school in GREELEY, Colorado. The school serves 367 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. The average among middle schools in Colorado is roughly 462 students; this school is 21% smaller than that.
In Greeley-Evans School District 6, 34 schools enroll a combined 22,917 students.
Hispanic students account for 78% of enrollment at Franklin Middle School. Other groups make up 12% White, 5% Asian, and 3% Black. Weld County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The chance that two students picked at random at Franklin Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 37%.
A ratio of 16.0:1 comes from the school's 22.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. Middle schools in Colorado have a similar average ratio of 15.9:1. The lunch program counts 88% of students at Franklin Middle School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The average for public schools in Weld County is 47%.
allk12 grades Franklin Middle School a B-. The grade compares the school only with Colorado public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Franklin Middle School's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (20.9%) and its predicted rate (13.5%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Colorado schools.
In the county around the school, Weld County, median household income is about $97,097, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 33% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. A total of 116 public schools operate in Weld County, serving about 61,274 students.
Scott Elementary School is the closest public school, about 0.6 miles away in a straight line. Franklin Middle School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Franklin Middle School ranks 2nd on proficiency.
The school's locale code, City: Mid-size, means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Franklin Middle School saw enrollment fall 31% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 14.8:1 in 2020-21, and 16.0:1 in 2024-25.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Franklin Middle School covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Weld County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
350,396
Census ACS
Median income
$97,097
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
116
61,274 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Greeley-Evans School District 6
- Greeley West High SchoolHigh · 1,936 students
- University SchoolsCombined · 1,784 students
- Greeley Central High SchoolHigh · 1,507 students
- Frontier Charter AcademyCombined · 1,432 students
- Northridge High SchoolHigh · 1,322 students
- Tointon Academy of Pre-EngineeringElementary · 1,127 students
Other schools in GREELEY
- Greeley West High SchoolHigh · 1,936 students
- University SchoolsCombined · 1,784 students
- Greeley Central High SchoolHigh · 1,507 students
- Frontier Charter AcademyCombined · 1,432 students
- Northridge High SchoolHigh · 1,322 students
- Tointon Academy of Pre-EngineeringElementary · 1,127 students
Other Franklin Middle schools
15 other US public schools in 13 states are named Franklin Middle. Franklin Middle School is the 12th largest of the 16.
- Franklin MiddleReisterstown, MD · 1,150 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolYakima, WA · 848 students
- Franklin MiddleChantilly, VA · 798 students
- FRANKLIN MIDDLE SCHOOLPOCATELLO, ID · 718 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolChampaign, IL · 665 students
Nearby schools
- Scott Elementary School0.6 mi · 566
- Shawsheen Elementary School0.7 mi · 405
- James Madison STEAM Academy0.9 mi · 768
- Maplewood Elementary School1.2 mi · 544
- Heath Middle School1.2 mi · 499
- Meeker Elementary School1.7 mi · 475
Frequently asked questions
About Franklin Middle SchoolHow many students attend Franklin Middle School?
Franklin Middle School enrolls approximately 367 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Franklin Middle School serve?
Franklin Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Franklin Middle School have?
Franklin Middle School employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Franklin Middle School?
Student demographics at Franklin Middle School are roughly 12% White, 78% Hispanic, 3% Black, 5% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Franklin Middle School public or private?
Franklin Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Greeley-Evans School District 6.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.